Court Opinion

ID: 9651236
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 16:10:58.484739+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:12:31.162728
License: Public Domain

SWAN, Circuit Judge
(concurring).
In these days when Government has to conduct so many investigations of private business, it is important that oppressive interference by governmental agents be as limited as is reasonably consistent with the public interest. I think the District Court would have acted more wisely if it had allowed the appellant’s belated offer to cooperate with the investigators to be put to a test at the plant before requiring its current books to be taken twenty-five miles away for an estimated period of four months. However, as the order was within the court’s power and my brothers see no abuse of discretion in making it, I concur, though not without a residuum of doubt, in its affirmance.