Court Opinion

ID: 9638239
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 15:38:34.93198+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:10:05.112889
License: Public Domain

CLARK, Circuit Judge
(dissenting in part).
I concur with the district court in the view that the second statement upon which the contempt order was based was also false and misleading. As the court well said, it is “clearly misleading in its new setting”; read in the context of the Commission’s opinion, “in an atmosphere of lawyers’ idioms it conveys one meaning,” while “in its new context, in its headlined form, it is very likely to convey” another meaning. “Defendant is a lawyer and alive to the different connotation of the clause against its new background. That is why he selected that quotation.” Indeed, the superficial cleverness of thus using the Commission’s own language to convey a meaning it did not intend seems to me, if anything, more objectionable than a forthright misstatement.