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California et al. v. United States
342 U.S. 885·Supreme Court of the United States·1951
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Opinion
No. 341.
California et al. v. United States.
Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, Walter L. Bowers, Assistant Attorney General, and Bayard Rhone, Deputy Attorney General, for the State of California; and Bertrand W. Gearhart for Petersen et al., petitioners.
Solicitor General Perlman, Assistant Attorney General Underhill and Roger P. Marquis for the United States.
[MAJORITY]
C. A. 9th Cir. Certiorari denied.