Record

Court opinion

1940-11-14

U.S. District Court, Western District of Missouri (three-judge court), via CourtListener

United States v. Pendergast (contempt; motions to abate and quash), 35 F. Supp. 593 (W.D. Mo. 1940)

A three-judge court's ruling on motions to abate and quash an information of 13 July 1940 charging Pendergast, Robert Emmett O'Malley and A. L. McCormack with contempt arising from the insurance-rate settlement decree; the objections are overruled.

Date: 1940-11-14
Kind: court-opinion
Source: U.S. District Court, Western District of Missouri (three-judge court), via CourtListener
Retrieved: 2026-10-12
Docket: 5040
Rights: A federal court opinion. A work of the United States government, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105. The text was read on CourtListener; no publisher headnote is used.

No. 5040 per the caption. The court (including Judges Otis and Reeves) overruled the objections on jurisdiction and the “order and decorum” argument. Only the opening and the first two grounds were read for this archive.

itemUnited States v. Pendergast; United States v. O'Malley, 28 F. Supp. 601 (W.D. Mo. 1939)Judge Otis's memorandum on the income-tax prosecutions of Thomas J. Pendergast and Robert Emmet O'Malley, describing '1908 Main Street' as 'synonymous with power' and printing the sentences imposed on Pendergast on 22 May 1939.itemUnited States v. Pendergast (contempt judgment), 39 F. Supp. 189 (W.D. Mo. 1941)The three-judge court adjudges Pendergast, O'Malley and McCormack in contempt over the insurance-rate settlement; the Supreme Court later records two years' imprisonment for Pendergast and O'Malley and two years' probation for McCormack.