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IN RE SAWYER

No. 326.

360 U.S. 622 (1959)

IN RE SAWYER.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 29, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John T. McTernan argued the cause and filed a brief for petitioner.

A. William Barlow, attorney for the Bar Association of Hawaii, argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief was Morio Omori, Special Deputy Attorney General of the Territory of Hawaii.

Joseph A. Forer filed a brief for the National Lawyers Guild, as amicus curiae, urging reversal.

MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN announced the judgment of the Court, and delivered an opinion, in which THE CHIEF JUSTICE, MR. JUSTICE BLACK, and MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS join.

This case is here on writ of certiorari, 358 U.S. 892, to review petitioner's suspension from the practice of law for one year, ordered by the Supreme Court of the Territory of Hawaii, 41 Haw. 403, and affirmed on appeal by the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit,

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