KASINOWITZ v. UNITED STATES

No. 12,217.

181 F.2d 632 (1950)

KASINOWITZ v. UNITED STATES. STEINBERG v. UNITED STATES. DOBBS v. UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit

Rehearing Denied June 1, 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.

Ernest A. Tolin, U. S. Atty., Robert J. Kelleher, Asst. U. S. Atty., Los Angeles, Cal., for appellee.

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

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

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

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


DENMAN, Chief Judge.

These are three appeals from judgments in criminal contempt sentencing each appellant to one year in jail for refusing to answer questions, later considered, in the same grand jury investigation as that in the appeals here in Alexander v. United States, 9 Cir., 1950, 181 F.2d 480.

The three appellants are of a group of thirty persons chosen by the United States Attorney because, he says, he thought he...

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