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Berman v. United States
329 U.S. 795·Supreme Court of the United States·1946
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Opinion
No. 538.
Berman v. United States.
December 23, 1946.
A. L. Wirin for petitioner.
Acting Solicitor General Washington, Robert S. Erdahl and Irving S. Shapiro for the United States. Julien Cornell, Ernest Angelí and Osmond K. Fraenkel filed a brief for the American Civil Liberties Union, as amicus curiae, in support of the petition.
[MAJORITY]
Petition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied.