Case ID: frd_9/html/0680-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "BAILEY, District Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

SOCIETE INTERNATIONALE POUR PARTICIPATIONS INDUSTRIELLES ET COMMERCIALES S. A. et al. v. McGRATH et al. (REMINGTON RAND, Inc., Intervenor).
    Civ. No. 4360-48.
    United States District Court District of Columbia.
    Jan. 10, 1950.
    See also 9 F.R.D. 263.
    
      Whiteford, Hart, Carmody & Wilson, Washington, D. C., John J. Wilson, Washington, D. C., Donald Hiss, Spencer Gordon, Washington, D. C., attorneys for plaintiff.
    Harold I. Baynton, Deputy Dir. Office of Alien Property, Washington, D. C., David Schwartz, Special Asst. to Atty. Gen., Sidney B. Jacoby, Chicago Ill., Paul E. McGraw, New York City, David A. Wilson, Jr., Washington, D. C., Olga H. Hoffmann, Washington, D. C., Anthony W. Gross, Washington, D. C., for defendants.
    Homer Cummings, J. Edward Burroughs, Jr., George C. Pendleton, Washington, D. C., Frank C. Sterck, Washington, D. C., attorneys for Intervenor.
   BAILEY, District Judge.

Upon consideration of the emergent motion of the plaintiff to be excused, on the ground of foreign law or foreign privilege, from answering, through Hans Sturzenegger, the questions which this Court, by order dated November 7, 1949, directed that Hans Sturzenegger answer, and after hearing the parties, it is hereby

Ordered that the motion of the plaintiff be and it is hereby denied and that the said questions be answered. The ground for this order is not that the questions have been ordered to be answered, but that foreign law or foreign privilege is not a valid excuse for a refusal to answer the questions.