DORAN v. UNITED STATES

No. 12221.

181 F.2d 489 (1950)

DORAN v. UNITED STATES and five other titles.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

February 4, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Margolis & McTernan, Ben Margolis John T. McTernan, Los Angeles, Cal. (William B. Murrish, John W. Porter, Esther Shandler and Jack Tenner, Los Angeles, Cal., of counsel), for appellants.

James M. Carter, U.S. Atty., Robert J. Kelleher, Asst. U.S. Atty., Los Angeles, Cal., Max H. Goldschein, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Julius M. Keller, San Francisco, Cal. (Norman Leonard, George G. Olshausen, San Francisco, Cal., of counsel), for Civil Rights Congress, as amici curiæ.

Ibanez & Snider, Los Angeles, Cal., for United Steel Workers of America et al., as amicus curiæ.

Paul Major, San Pedro, Cal., for Carey McWilliams et al., as amicus curiæ.

Before DENMAN, Chief Judge, and MATHEWS, STEPHENS, HEALY, BONE, ORR and POPE, Circuit Judges.


DENMAN, Chief Judge.

These are six appeals from judgments and commitments in civil contempt for refusing to answer questions addressed to appellants by the government's attorneys while witnesses before the federal grand jury of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California, sitting in Los Angeles, California. As in the appeals in the case of Alexander et al. v. United States, 181 F.2d 480, in this court...

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