Legal Opinion
In Re McConnell
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 18, 1962No. 498PublishedCited by 212 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Black
The petitioner Thomas C. McConnell, a lawyer, was summarily found guilty of contempt of court for statements made while representing the Parmelee Transportation Company in an antitrust suit for treble damages *231and an injunction. The complaint charged that a number of defendants had unlawfully conspired to destroy Parmelee’s business by restraining and monopolizing trade in violation of the Sherman Act.1 Petitioner and his co-counsel, Lee A. Freeman, had done extensive pretrial preparation on the issue of conspiracy which was the heart of their case. At the very outset of the trial, however,…
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- United States v. Bobby G. SealeCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1972
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