Whitcraft v. Brown

BENAVIDES, Circuit Judge:

Lois Whitcraft and Phillip Offill appeal from a civil contempt order issued by the district court in the underlying proceeding. We affirm in part and vacate in part the district court’s contempt order.

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On July 2, 2007, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) sued certain individual and entities, including Jeffrey Bruteyn, son of Appellant Whitcraft and client of Appellant Offill, an attorney, for securities fraud. The SEC also joined two other corporations partially owned or controlled by Bruteyn as relief defendants: American Eagle Acceptance Corporation…