McCann v. New York Stock Exchange

L. HAND, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff appeals from an order fining him $250 f.or contempt of court and directing that he be committed un-til he pays. ' He had sued the New York Stock Exchange, the Curb Exchange, and over six hundred other defendants to recover damages for a conspiracy under the Anti-Trust Acts; the action is at issue in the District Court. Meanwhile he has kept up a sporadic fusillade of broadsides sent to all members of the exchange, of whom many are defendants, abusing the exchange and its officers, the Better Business Bureau, a defendant, and some of the attorneys retained…