McPHAUL v. UNITED STATES

No. 13285.

272 F.2d 627 (1959)

Arthur McPHAUL, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

December 5, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ernest Goodman, Goodman, Crockett, Eden & Robb, Detroit, Mich., for appellant.

George E. Woods, Chief Asst. U. S. Atty., Detroit, Mich., Fred W. Kaess, U. S. Atty., Detroit, Mich., on brief, for appellee.

Harold Norris, Detroit, Mich., on brief amicus curiæ of Metropolitan Detroit Branch, American Civil Liberties Union.

Before MILLER, CECIL and WEICK, Circuit Judges.


WEICK, Circuit Judge.

Appellant was served with a subpoena duces tecum requiring him to produce certain records of the Civil Rights Congress before the Committee on Un-American Activities of the United States House of Representatives on February 27, 1952, at Detroit Michigan.

The subpoena called for:

"documents of the Civil Rights Congress relating to, (A) all records, correspondence, and memoranda pertaining to the organization of, and (B) the affiliation...

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