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Barsky et al. v. United States, 1948 — 334 U.S. 843 · caselaw · US
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Barsky et al. v. United States
334 U.S. 843·Supreme Court of the United States·1948
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Opinion
No. 766.
Barsky et al. v. United States.
O. John Rogge and Lester Levin for petitioners. Solicitor General Perlman, Assistant Attorney General Quinn, Robert S. Erdahl and Irving S. Shapiro for the United States. Briefs of amici curiae supporting the petition were filed by Harry Sacher for the Civil Rights Congress; Robert W. Kenny, Bartley C. Crum, Charles Houston, Charles Katz, Ben Margolis and Martin Popper for Lawson et al.; David Rein for the National Lawyers Guild; Osmond K. Fraenkel, Arthur Garfield Hays, Benjamin H. Kizer and Perry J. Stearns for the American Civil Liberties Union; Joseph Forer for the Southern Conference for Human Welfare; and Arthur G. Silverman for the International Longshoremen’s & Warehousemen’s Union et al.
[MAJORITY]
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Certiorari denied.