In re Letters of Request to Examine Witnesses, etc.
Decision Date | 21 November 1973 |
Docket Number | No. 73-1978,73-2210.,73-1978 |
Citation | 488 F.2d 511 |
Parties | In re LETTERS OF REQUEST TO EXAMINE WITNESSES FROM the COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH FOR MANITOBA, CANADA. (two cases). MANITOBA COMMISSION OF INQUIRY, Applicant-Appellee, v. James L. ZEIGLER, Witness-Appellee. MANITOBA COMMISSION OF INQUIRY, Applicant-Appellee, v. James L. ZEIGLER, Witness-Appellant. |
Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — Ninth Circuit |
Robert J. Gelhaus, and Stuart R. Pollak (argued), of Howard, Prim, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady & Pollak, James L. Browning, Jr., U. S. Atty., San Francisco, Cal., for applicant-appellant.
Edwin E. Huddleson, Jr., Jerald L. Wilkerson (argued), of Cooley, Godward, Castro, Huddleson & Tatum, San Francisco, Cal., for witness-appellee.
Before TUTTLE,* MERRILL and BROWNING, Circuit Judges.
Pursuant to a Letter of Request from the Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench for Manitoba, Canada, the District Court for the Northern District of California entered an order appointing commissioners to take testimony respecting the Pas Forestry and Industrial Complex, a multi-million dollar project in Manitoba. The Letter of Request established that those whose appointment was sought were a duly constituted Commission of Inquiry under the authority of the Manitoba Evidence Act.
Pursuant to the order of the District Court, the commissioners so appointed caused a subpoena to be served upon James L. Zeigler of Tiburon, California, who then moved the court below to vacate its earlier order appointing the commissioners and to quash the subpoena issued by them.
Following hearing the court granted Zeigler's motion by order entered May 23, 1973, and this appeal was taken. The order of the District Court is published at 59 F.R.D. 625 (N.D.Cal.1973).
The issue dealt with is whether 28 U. S.C. § 1782, pursuant to which the District Court's original order was entered, empowers federal district courts to compel testimony on behalf of a Canadian Commission of Inquiry. Section 1782 reads as follows:
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