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UNITED STATES v. FIELD

Nos. 300-302, Dockets 22116-22118.

193 F.2d 92 (1951)

UNITED STATES v. FIELD et al.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided October 30, 1951.

Writ of Certiorari Dismissed January 7, 1952.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary M. Kaufman, of New York City (Victor Rabinowitz, of New York City, on the brief), for appellants Frederick V. Field and W. Alphaeus Hunton.

Charles Haydon, of New York City, for appellant Dashiell Hammett.

Roy M. Cohn and James B. Kilsheimer III, Asst. U. S. Attys., both of New York City (Irving H. Saypol, U. S. Atty., and Robert Martin, Asst. U.S. Atty., both of New York City, on the brief), for the United States, appellee.

Before CHASE, CLARK, and FRANK, Circuit Judges.

Writ of Certiorari Dismissed January 7, 1952. See 72 S.Ct. 303.

CLARK, Circuit Judge.

This appeal, from three summary orders of contempt, is an aftermath of the affirmance by the Supreme Court in Dennis et al. v. United States, 341 U.S. 494, 71 S.Ct. 857, 95 L.Ed. 1137, of the conviction of eleven officers of the Communist Party of America for violation of the Smith Act, 18 U.S.C. § 2385. Those defendants had been enlarged...

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