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WYMAN v. SWEEZY

No. 4395.

100 N.H. 103 (1956)

LOUIS C. WYMAN, Attorney General v. PAUL M. SWEEZY.

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

Decided March 6, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis C. Wyman, Attorney General (by brief and orally), pro se.

Sheehan, Phinney & Bass (Mr. Phinney orally), for the defendant.

Joseph A. Millimet (by brief and orally), as amicus curiae.

George Soll (of New York) for the Academic Freedom Committee of American Civil Liberties Union, as amicus curiae.

GOODNOW, J.

The Attorney General was chosen by the Senate and House of Representatives as a legislative committee to make an investigation "with a view to providing [the Legislature] with information upon which further action by it may be predicated." Nelson v. Wyman, 99 N.H. 33, 37, 38. The matters concerning which it was authorized to inquire were limited to those "relevant and pertinent to the main object of the investigation...

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