Dennis et al. v. United States

No. 502. Dennis et al. v. United States. Nathan Witt, George J. Francis and Telford Taylor for petitioners. Solicitor General Marshall, Assistant Attorney Yeagley and George B. Searls for the United States. [MAJORITY] C. A. 10th Cir. Certiorari granted limited to Questions 1, 2, and 3 presented by the petition, which read as follows: “1. Whether the indictment states the offense of conspiracy to defraud the United States; “2. Whether, in the comparative light of American Communications Assn. v. Douds, 339 U. S. 382, and United States v. Archie Browm, 381 U. S. 437, Section 9 (h) of the Taft-Hartley Act is constitutional; “3. Whether the trial court erred in denying petitioners’ motions for the production, to the'defense or the Court, of grand jury testimony of prosecution witnesses.” Gerhard P. Van Arkel, Charles F. Brannan, John F. O’Donnell, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., Eugene Cotton, Melvin L. Wulf, Jacob Sheinkman, Joseph M. Jacobs and John Ligtenberg for the American Civil Liberties Union et al., in support of the petition.