Societe Internationale Pour Participations Industrielles et Commerciales, S.A. v. Rogers

Societe Internationale Pour Participations Industrielles Et Commerciales, S.A. v. Rogers, 357 U.S. 197 (1958), was a case decided by the United States Supreme Court, in which the court considered whether a district court could dismiss a case based on the petitioner's failure to comply with the court's order to produce records of the petitioner's Swiss bank account, an act which would have amounted to a violation of Swiss law.

Societe Internationale Pour Participations Industrielles Et Commerciales, S.A. v. Rogers
Argued May 1, 1958
Decided June 16, 1958
Full case nameSociete Internationale Pour Participations Industrielles Et Commerciales, S.A. v. Rogers, Attorney General, Successor to the Alien Property Custodian, et al.
Citations357 U.S. 197 (more)
78 S. Ct. 1087; 2 L. Ed. 2d 1255; 1958 U.S. LEXIS 819
Court membership
Chief Justice
Earl Warren
Associate Justices
Hugo Black · Felix Frankfurter
William O. Douglas · Harold H. Burton
Tom C. Clark · John M. Harlan II
William J. Brennan Jr. · Charles E. Whittaker
Case opinion
MajorityHarlan
Clark took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.
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