United States Second Circuit

Where a civil contemnor has been in prison for over 18 months and claims inability to comply with contempt order, a party may obtain appellate review of the civil contempt sanction prior to entry of a final judgment in the underlying action.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/07/2002
• Decided 10/12/2001
• Published 10/12/2001

Judges

• PER CURIAM., Before JACOBS, F.I. PARKER, SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Bernard V. Kleinman, White Plains, NY, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Martin Glenn, O'Melveny & Myers LLP, New York, NY, for Appellee Alan M. Cohen (Jacob H. Stillman, Solicitor, Leslie E. Smith, Senior Litigation Counsel, Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, D.C., Kirk Manhardt, Deputy General Counsel, Nancy R. Page, Assistant General Counsel, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Washington, D.C., on the brief).