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METHODIST FEDERATION FOR SOCIAL ACTION v. EASTLAND

Civ. A. No. 1845-56.

141 F.Supp. 729 (1956)

METHODIST FEDERATION FOR SOCIAL ACTION, an unincorporated association, Plaintiff, v. James O. EASTLAND et al., Defendants.

United States District Court District of Columbia.

May 25, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard B. Boudin, New York City, and Harry I. Rand, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff.

George Cochran Doub, Asst. Atty. Gen., Oliver Gasch, U. S. Atty., Edward H. Hickey and Howard E. Shapiro, Attorneys, Department of Justice, for defendants Raymond Blattenberger, Public Printer, and Carper W. Buckley, Superintendent of Documents.

No appearance filed for defendants Eastland, Johnston, McClellan, Hennings, Daniel, Jenner, Watkins, Welker and Butler, members of Subcommittee to Investigate Administration of Internal Security Act and other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States Senate.

Before EDGERTON and PRETTYMAN, Circuit Judges, and WILKIN, District Judge.

EDGERTON, Circuit Judge.

A 100-page pamphlet entitled "The Communist Party of the United States — What It Is — How It Works — A Handbook For Americans", issued by the Subcommittee on Internal Security of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, was printed December 21, 1955. A Concurrent Resolution, passed by the Senate January 16, 1956 and by the House of Representatives April 23, 1956, orders this pamphlet "printed as a Senate Document. * * *...

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