Bibliography 2: #BIB32491

Key	BIB32491
Reference type	Case
Abstract	In an appeal from a civil-contempt proceeding alleging violations of an injunction entered more than four decades ago, arising from an underlying suit involving a trademark and property dispute between two religious organizations, district court's denial of the contempt motion on the ground that all nonparties to the original lawsuit lacked privity with the original defendant is affirmed as, although the district court should have applied Merriam, which held that a former employee of an enjoined corporation had such a key role in the company and in the underlying litigation that he could be "legally identified" with the enjoined corporation and therefore held in contempt for using a newly formed company to circumvent the injunction, the judge's findings are thorough enough to resolve the privity question without a remand. Here, the respondent nonparty religious groups and their principals are not sufficiently identified in interest with the original defendant to permit a conclusion that they had their day in court back in 1966.
Language	English
Keywords	COVENANT; COVENANT-BREAKING; LITIGATION
Year decided	2010
Docket number	08-2306
Case name	The National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States of America under the Hereditary Guardianship, Inc., Plaintiff v. National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States of America, Inc., Defendant-Appellant v. Franklin D. Schlatter, Joel B. Marangella, Provisional National Bahá'í Council of the United States, et al., Respondents-Appellees
Abbr. case name	National Spiritual Assembly v. National Spiritual Assembly of, et al, No. 08-2306 (7th Cir. 2010)
Court	United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Date decided	November 23, 2010
Call number	Pam 0085 (COLLINS)
File attachments	internal-pdf://1269727851/08-2306-2010-11-23-opinion-2011-02-25.pdf

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