United States v. Goldstein

CLARK, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order adjudging the defendant, a doctor, in contempt of court and sentencing him to six months in jail for failure to produce before a Grand Jury his records concerning his professional treatment of one Samuel Weinberg. The contempt order, issued under 28 U.S.C. A. § 385, was based upon defendant’s failure to comply with a subpoena duces tecum, an order of the Grand Jury, and an order of the District Court, each of which required him to produce these records before the Grand Jury.

If, as the court found, there was a contumacious failure to comply…