People Ex Rel. Scott v. Silverstein

The present appeal is ancillary to People ex rel. Scott v. Silverstein, which was brought by the Illinois Attorney General and which is now pending in the circuit court of Cook County against five individual defendants who are either officers or directors of the George F. Harding Museum in Chicago, the George F. Harding Museum, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., a New York corporation, and one of its employees, seeking to enjoin the sale of certain assets of the museum, to remove its directors, and to hold the directors personally liable for losses which the museum may have sustained. One of the defendants, a director of the George F. Harding Museum, George A. Otlewis, subpoenaed William Currie for his deposition and for the production of certain documents. Currie is a newspaper reporter for the Chicago Tribune. He is not a party to the principal action. Currie wrote a number of articles for the Chicago Tribune relating to the subject matter of the principal case. He was also assigned to report on developments in the litigation.