GIRARD v. WILSON

H. C. No. 47-57.

152 F.Supp. 21 (1957)

William S. GIRARD, United States Army Specialist 3/C, Petitioner, v. Charles E. WILSON, Secretary of Defense, John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State, Wilbur M. Brucker, Secretary of the Army, General Maxwell D. Taylor, Head Joint Chiefs of Staff Department of Defense, Major General W. H. Maglin, Provost Marshal General United States Army, General Lyman Lemnitzer, Commanding General, Far East Command, Respondents.

United States District Court District of Columbia.

June 18, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Earl J. Carroll, and Joseph S. Robinson, New York City, Dayton M. Harrington, Washington, D. C., for petitioner.

Oliver Gasch, U. S. Atty., E. Riley Casey, Asst. U. S. Atty., Harold H. Greene, Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., for defendants.


McGARRAGHY, District Judge.

This is a Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus and for other relief, filed by William S. Girard, United States Army Specialist Third Class, against the Secretary of Defense and others, in which he alleges that on or about January 30, 1957, he was arrested and thereafter held in confinement by the military authorities of the United States and is presently held in such confinement for the purpose of being delivered to the Government of Japan...

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