COMMUNIST PARTY OF UNITED STATES v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 19880, 19881.

384 F.2d 957 (1967)

The COMMUNIST PARTY OF the UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided March 3, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John J. Abt, New York City, of the bar of the Court of Appeals of New York, pro hac vice, by special leave of court, with whom Mr. Joseph Forer, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Kevin T. Maroney, Atty., Dept. of Justice, with whom Asst. Atty. Gen. J. Walter Yeagley, Messrs. David G. Bress, U. S. Atty., and George B. Searls, Atty., Dept. of Justice, were on the brief, for appellee. Mr. Frank Q. Nebeker, Asst. U. S. Atty. and Mr. Joseph A. Lowther, Asst. U. S. Atty. at the time the record was filed, also entered appearances for appellee.

Before PRETTYMAN, Senior Circuit Judge, and DANAHER and McGOWAN, Circuit Judges.


McGOWAN, Circuit Judge:

These consolidated appeals are from judgments of conviction under two indictments returned, respectively, on December 1, 1961 and February 25, 1965. Each charged appellant, a voluntary association, with eleven counts of failing to register as a Communist-action organization as required by the Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950, and one count of failing to file the statement which Congress directed should accompany the act of registration...

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