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COLUMBIA PACKING CO., INC. v. U. S. DEPT. OF AGRI.

No. 76-1417.

563 F.2d 495 (1977)

COLUMBIA PACKING COMPANY, INC., Plaintiff, Appellee, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE et al., Defendants, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Argued January 5, 1977.

Decided September 21, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frederic D. Cohen, Atty., Appellate Section, Civ. Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., with whom Rex E. Lee, Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D.C., James N. Gabriel, U.S. Atty., Boston, Mass., and William Kanter, Atty., Appellate Section, Civ. Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., were on brief, for appellants.

Stephen R. Delinsky, Boston, Mass., with whom Frank Giso, III and Peabody, Brown, Rowley & Storey, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for appellee.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge, BOWNES, District Judge.

LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge.

Appellee Columbia Packing Co. (Columbia) is a federally inspected meat packing plant in Boston. In 1974 Columbia and its vice president were convicted on numerous counts of bribing two federal meat inspection officials, Joseph F. Mauriello and Domenic L. Germano. The two inspectors were themselves convicted in other proceedings of receiving bribes from other companies. The scandal revealing widespread corruption in the meat packing...

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