UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT DECISIONS ON-LINE

An application for stay, pending consideration of a petition for certiorari, of the Court of Appeals' order committing applicant, the president of a corporation under investigation by a federal grand jury for involvement in an allegedly fraudulent funding scheme, for civil contempt for refusing on the basis of his privilege against self-incrimination to answer questions before the grand jury regarding records maintained by the corporation, is denied where the inquiry was of a very general nature -- a description of the type of records kept by the corporation.