Court Opinion

ID: 9443488
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 19:22:18.504576+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:29:30.322251
License: Public Domain

PER CURIAM.
Appellant John F. Malone has filed a motion for summary reversal of the order of the District Court holding him in contempt of court, entered September 18, 1952. The relator has filed objections thereto-.
 The record discloses that this appeal presents but one question, and that is the same one that was before this court in United States ex rel. Touhy v. Ragen, 7 Cir., 180 F.2d 321, and before the Supreme Court in United States ex rel. Touhy v. Ragen, 340 U.S. 462, 71 S.Ct. 416, 95 L.Ed. 417, wherein it was held that Order No. 3229 entered by the Attorney General, acting under 5 U.S.C.A. § 22, is valid and that a subordinate official of the Department of Justice, in pursuance of that order, acted properly, in refusing to produce certain documentary evidence and was, therefore, improperly found guilty of contempt of court. Here a similar subordinate declined *196to produce such evidence, acting under the same order and directions from the Attorney General so to do. Inasmuch as the essential question has been authoritatively decided by the Supreme Court, its decision is controlling.
The alleged differences in the present case are of no legal significance.
The order appealed from is reversed.