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EX PARTE FRANKFELD

Nos. 2073, 2074.

32 F.Supp. 915 (1940)

Ex parte FRANKFELD. Ex parte O'DEA.

District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia.

April 9, 1940.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sol. H. Cohn, of New York City, for petitioners.

John B. Colpoys, U. S. Marshal, Edward M. Curran, U. S. Atty., and Allen J. Krouse, Asst. U. S. Atty., all of Washington, D. C., for respondent.

LETTS, Justice.

These petitioners are held under authority of a warrant issued by United States Commissioner Turnage authorizing their apprehension. They are charged with a violation of Section 192, Title 2, of the United States Code. Specifically it is said that they have violated the statute by refusing, when before a special committee of the House of Representatives, called the Committee on un-American Activities, to answer certain questions propounded to them...

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