Willard J. Lamorte v. Hon. Walter R. Mansfield, Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York

FRIENDLY, Circuit Judge:

Willard J. LaMorte, president and director of the Shattuck Denn Mining Corporation, is a defendant in actions now pending in the District Court for the Southern District of New York, which were brought by Alan Zients and other stockholders for alleged violations of the federal securities laws. In the course of taking LaMorte’s deposition prior to trial, plaintiffs’ attorneys inquired whether LaMorte possessed a copy of the transcript of testimony he had given in 1967, under subpoena, in a nonpublic investigation being conducted by the Securities and Exchange…