BOORDA v. SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES CONTROL BOARD

Nos. 22514, 22522.

421 F.2d 1142 (1969)

Simon BOORDA, Petitioner, v. SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES CONTROL BOARD, Respondent. Robert ARCHULETA and Wayne Dallas Holley, Petitioners, v. SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES CONTROL BOARD, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided December 12, 1969.

Certiorari Denied April 20, 1970.


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 petitioners.

Mr. Kevin T. Maroney, Atty., Department of Justice, with whom Mr. J. Walter Yeagley, Asst. Atty. Gen., Messrs. Frank R. Hunter, Jr., General Counsel, Charles F. Dirlam, Assistant General Counsel, Subversive Activities Control Board, and Mrs. Lee B. Anderson, Atty., Department of Justice, were on the brief, for respondent.

Mr. Lawrence Speiser, Washington, D. C., filed a brief on behalf of American Civil Liberties Union, as amicus curiae urging reversal.

Before BAZELON, Chief Judge, and WRIGHT and McGOWAN, Circuit Judges.


Certiorari Denied April 20, 1970. See 90 S.Ct. 1365.

BAZELON, Chief Judge:

These are petitions under § 14(a) of the Subversive Activities Control Act1 to set aside orders of the Subversive Activities Control Board determining that each of the several petitioners is "a member of the Communist Party of the United States of America, a Communist-action organization." The fact of membership is not at issue.2<...

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