UNITED STATES v. OWLETT

No. 1238.

15 F.Supp. 736 (1936)

UNITED STATES v. OWLETT et al.

District Court, M. D. Pennsylvania.

July 7, 1936.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Dickinson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Frederick V. Follmer, U. S. Atty., of Scranton, Pa., and John S. L. Yost and Hugh B. Cox, Sp. Assts. to the Atty. Gen., for the United States.

George Wharton Pepper, William A. Schnader, James Alan Montgomery, Jr., and Bernard G. Segal, all of Philadelphia, Pa., for respondents.


JOHNSON, District Judge.

This is a bill in equity instituted by the United States of America to enjoin the respondents, an investigating committee created by resolution of the Senate of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, from conducting any investigation into the organization, administration, and functioning of the Works Progress Administration in Pennsylvania.

The bill of complaint avers that the United States of America is a sovereign government having jurisdiction...

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