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Glasser v. United States; Kretske v. United States; and Roth v. United States
313 U.S. 551·Supreme Court of the United States·1941
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Opinion
No. 796.
No. 797.
No. 798.
Glasser v. United States; Kretske v. United States; and Roth v. United States.
April 7, 1941.
Messrs. Homer Cummings and William D. Donnelly for petitioner in No. 796. Mr. Edward M. Keating for petitioner in No. 797. Mr. Alfred E. Both, pro se. Solicitor General Biddle, Assistant Attorney General Berge, and Messrs. George F. Kneip, Fred E. Strine, and W. Marvin Smith for the United States. Mr. Ralph M. Snyder filed a brief, as amicus curiae, in support of petitioner in No. 796.
[MAJORITY]
On consideration of the suggestion of a diminution of the record and motion for a writ of certiorari in that relation, the motion for a writ of certiorari is granted. The petitions for writs of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit are granted.
Reported below: 116 F. 2d 690.