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MATTER OF DI BRIZZI (PROSKAUER)

303 N.Y. 206 (1951)

In the Matter of Alex Di Brizzi, Appellant. Joseph M. Proskauer et al., as Members of The New York State Crime Commission, et al., Respondents.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided July 11, 1951

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis Waldman, Martin Markson and Seymour M. Waldman for appellant.

Nathaniel L. Goldstein, Attorney-General, John M. Harlan, Special Assistant Attorney-General (Ben A. Matthews and Jerome G. Shapiro of counsel), for respondents.

LOUGHRAN, Ch. J., LEWIS and DESMOND, JJ., concur with CONWAY, J.; FULD, J., concurs in separate opinion; DYE, J., dissents in opinion in which FROESSEL, J., concurs.

CONWAY, J.

In this proceeding, petitioner seeks to challenge the legality and constitutionality of an investigation ordered by the Governor, to be conducted by the Attorney-General and certain "officers of the Department of Law", who were specially appointed for the purpose and who were denominated, collectively, as the "New York State Crime Commission".

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