Globus v. Law Research Service, Inc.

How later courts describe this case

• holding that “[t]here can be no question that a person ‘endeavors’ to obstruct justice when he arranges to have a prospective government witness murdered.”
• failure of government to comply with disclosure requirements of Jenck's Act, 18 U.S.C. Sec. 3500, held harmless error
• failure of government to comply with disclosure requirements of Jenck’s Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3500, held harmless error
• “consistent verdicts are not, in themselves, necessary attributes of a valid judgment [in a civil action]”
• no reasonable expectation that placement of telephone call or particular number called will not be recorded
• underwriter could not recover from issuer under indemnification agreement where jury had found underwriter guilty of misconduct involving “actual knowledge”, in violation of § 10(b)
• “courts have endeavored to treat the ’33 and ’34 Acts in pari materia and to construe them as a single comprehensive scheme of regulation”
• “causation must be proved else defendants could be held liable to all the world”