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YATES v. UNITED STATES

No. 15880.

252 F.2d 568 (1958)

Oleta O'Connor YATES, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

February 7, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Margolis, McTernan & Branton, Ben Margolis, Leo Branton, Jr., Los Angeles, Cal., for appellant.

Laughlin E. Waters, U. S. Atty., Norman W. Neukom, Lloyd F. Dunn, Asst. U. S. Attys., Los Angeles, Cal., for appellee.

Wirin, Rissman & Okrand, Fred Okrand, Hugh R. Manes, Los Angeles, Cal., for amicus curiae, American Civil Liberties Union of Southern Cal.

Before STEPHENS, Chief Judge, and FEE and CHAMBERS, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

On July 26, 1955, this court affirmed a judgment under which Oleta O'Connor Yates was sentenced to one year's imprisonment for contempt of court. Yates v. United States, 9 Cir., 227 F.2d 851. Our opinion was reversed, Yates v. United States, 355 U.S. 66, 78 S.Ct. 128, 2 L.Ed.2d 95, the Supreme Court holding that the series of questions to which answer had been refused constituted one single...

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