UNITED STATES v. BELL

No. 15759.

48 F.Supp. 986 (1943)

UNITED STATES v. BELL et al.

District Court, S. D. California, Central Division.

February 13, 1943.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leo V. Silverstein, U. S. Atty., and Norman Neukom, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiff.

Lorrin Andrews, of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendants.

A. L. Wirin, of Los Angeles, Cal., for American Civil Liberties Union, amicus curiae.


YANKWICH, District Judge (after stating the facts as above).

Offenses in which persons who profess heterodox doctrines are involved present problems which either do not exist in ordinary prosecutions or, if they do exist, are not pressed for solution. This for the reason that once we enter the realm of opinion, our American tradition of liberalism makes many persons and groups who do not condone the acts of the particular defendants, or do not share their ideas or...

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