Koch v. Koch Industries, Inc.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

CROW, Senior District Judge.

This case has been on file since 1985. Trial is set to commence on April 6, 1998. Among the deluge of the other complicated matters which the court must resolve in the few remaining days before trial comes the plaintiffs’ “Motion for Order to Show Cause Why Defendants Should Not be Held in Contempt and for Order Prohibiting Extrajudicial Statements to the News Media” (Dk. 715). The plaintiffs’ motion essentially has two components. First, the plaintiffs suggest that the defendants have improperly sponsored a telephone survey of Topeka residents…