Court Opinion

ID: 9652578
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 17:26:53.872734+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:12:52.518710
License: Public Domain

SWAN, Circuit Judge
(concurring).
I agree that the order must he reversed. But I wish to make it perfectly plain that in my opinion the District Judges have full power to refuse to accept any bonds written by this appellant until they are satisfied that its business will be so conducted as to preclude a repetition of the evils which led to this motion for an injunction. If the court lacks confidence in the surety’s purpose or ability to secure the appearance of a bailed defendant, it may refuse its approval of a bond even though the financial standing of the bail is beyond question. United States v. Lee, 170 F. 613 (D. C. S. D. Ohio). The statute (6 USCA) does not, in my opinion, prevent the court from refusing to accept a corporate surety which has obtained a certificate of authority under section 8 thereof. Consequently, if the appellant’s business was so conducted as to forfeit confidence, as appears to be the ease, the District Judges might, by an amendment of rule 28, exclude it from the list of companies therein approved. But the procedure attempted to he employed in making the order appealed from was beyond the court’s jurisdiction.