Appeal of McGraw-Hill, Inc. v. Arizona, California, Florida, Oregon & Washington

This is an appeal from Judge William P. Gray’s order1 holding McGraw-Hill, Inc. in civil contempt for refusing to produce a document in the possession of Ernest McClelland, an employee of McGraw-Hill, containing certain names of confidential sources. The document was requested pursuant to a subpoena duces tecum served on McGraw-Hill as a non-party witness by the States of Arizona, California,- Florida, Oregon and Washington (“States”) in connection with a multidistrict litigation brought against seventeen oil companies alleging violations of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1. Because the law…