SOCIETE INTERNATIONALE POUR PARTICIPATIONS INDUSTRIELLES v. BROWNELL

No. 348.

355 U.S. 812 (1957)

SOCIETE INTERNATIONALE POUR PARTICIPATIONS INDUSTRIELLES ET COMMERCIALES, S.A., v. BROWNELL, ATTORNEY GENERAL, SUCCESSOR TO THE ALIEN PROPERTY CUSTODIAN, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

October 14, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roger J. Whiteford and John J. Wilson for petitioner. Solicitor General Rankin, Assistant Attorney General Townsend, George B. Searls, Sidney B. Jacoby and Ernest S. Carsten for respondents.


Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit granted. Counsel are invited to discuss, among other things, the power of the District Court to dismiss, and the propriety of its dismissal of, petitioner's complaint, under Rule 37 (b)(2) of F.R.C.P., for failure to obey its order, for production of documents, issued under Rule 34 of F.R.C.P., in the absence of evidence and of finding that petitioner "refuses...

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