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IN RE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF UNITED STATES

Nos. 239, 484, 485, Dockets 78-6114, 78-6179, 78-3050.

596 F.2d 58 (1979)

In re the ATTORNEY GENERAL OF the UNITED STATES, Petitioner-Appellant. SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. The ATTORNEY GENERAL et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided March 19, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert B. Fiske, Jr., U.S. Atty. for the Southern District of New York, New York City (Thomas E. Moseley, Stuart I. Parker, Frank H. Wohl, Asst. U.S. Attys., New York City, of counsel), for defendants-appellants and petitioner-appellant.

Leonard B. Boudin, Rabinowitz, Boudin & Standard, New York City (Eric M. Lieberman, Rabinowitz, Boudin & Standard, Margaret Winter, Mary B. Pike, New York City, on the brief), for plaintiffs-appellees.

Eugene Gold, Dist. Atty., Kings County, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Richard E. Mischel, Asst. Dist. Atty., Brooklyn, N.Y., of counsel), National Dist. Attorneys Association, Inc., Chicago, Ill., amici curiae in support of petitioner-appellant and other defendants-appellants.

Before LUMBARD, FRIENDLY and OAKES, Circuit Judges.

OAKES, Circuit Judge:

The Government appeals from an order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Thomas P. Griesa, Judge, holding the Attorney General of the United States in civil contempt for refusing to release eighteen files disclosing the names of a number of allegedly confidential government informants to appellees' attorneys, in accordance with an order of the court. In the alternative...

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