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Common Stockholders Committee of Long Island Lighting Co. v. Securities & Exchange Commission et al.; and Gordon v. Securities & Exchange Commission et al., 1950 — 340 U.S. 834 · caselaw · US
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Common Stockholders Committee of Long Island Lighting Co. v. Securities & Exchange Commission et al.; and Gordon v. Securities & Exchange Commission et al.
340 U.S. 834·Supreme Court of the United States·1950
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Opinion
No. 220.
No. 221.
Common Stockholders Committee of Long Island Lighting Co. v. Securities & Exchange Commission et al.; and Gordon v. Securities & Exchange Commission et al.
Harold G. Aron, Lynne A. Warren and Charles B. McGroddy, Jr. for petitioner in No. 220. Donald Havens for petitioner in No. 221. Solicitor General Perlman, John F. Davis, Roger S. Foster, Harry G. Slater, Solomon Freedman and Ellwood L. Englander for the Securities & Exchange Commission; Charles G. Blakeslee and David K. Kadane for the Long Island Lighting Co. et al.; and Milton Pollack and Richard F. Wolf son for the Committee of Preferred Stockholders of the Long Island Lighting Co., respondents.
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C. A. 2d Cir. Certiorari denied. Mr. Justice Douglas took no part in the consideration or decision of these applications.
Reported below: 183 P. 2d 45.