Add to ORKGln response to a subpoena, petitioner appeared as a witness before a United States district court grand jury. Several questions concerning· her knowledge and association with the Communist Party were put to her. In each case, she refused to answer the questions, claiming the constitutional privilege against self-incrimination. For refusal to answer these same questions when brought before the district court, petitioner was adjudged to be in contempt of court. The court of appeals affirmed the holdings, and certiorari was granted by the Supreme Court. Held, judgment reversed. The Smith Act makes it unlawful to advocate knowingly the desirability of the overthrow of the government by force or violence, to organize or help to organize any soci...
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That section of the Subversive Activities Control Act requiring individual members of the Communist ...
In an action for conversion of stock, plaintiff alleged that her intestate was the actual owner of t...
Plaintiff sought to withdraw a registration statement which he had filed with the Securities and Exc...
Defendants were charged with violation of the Federal Regulation of Lobbying Act because of failure ...
ln response to a subpoena, petitioner appeared as a witness before a United States district court gr...
Appellant was indicted under a Georgia statute which provided that anyone who contracted to perform ...
Plaintiff brought an action in New York for specific performance of an oral agreement allegedly made...
Federal officers arrested petitioner upon finding narcotics in an awning outside the window of E\u27...
Petitioner, who was known as an underworld character and racketeer, was subpoenaed before a federal ...
ln response to a summons, petitioner appeared to testify before a congressional committee investigat...
Plaintiff and defendant exchanged several letters concerning six contiguous lots which defendant own...
Plaintiff engaged a Michigan corporation to negotiate the purchase for him of certain shares of stoc...
A special agent of the Internal Revenue Service sought enumerated books and records of four New York...
Defendant was chairman of the Communist Party for the western district of Pennsylvania. He was charg...
The check was not a sufficient memorandum to satisfy the Statute of Frauds provision of the Uniform ...
That section of the Subversive Activities Control Act requiring individual members of the Communist ...
In an action for conversion of stock, plaintiff alleged that her intestate was the actual owner of t...
Plaintiff sought to withdraw a registration statement which he had filed with the Securities and Exc...
Defendants were charged with violation of the Federal Regulation of Lobbying Act because of failure ...