Dennis Et Al. v. United States

382 U.S. 915, 86 S. Ct. 291

Opinion

C. A. 10th Cir. Certiorari granted limited to Questions 1, 2, and 3 presented by the petition, which read as follows:

“1. Whether the indictment states the offense of conspiracy to defraud the United States;

“2. Whether, in the comparative light of American Communications Assn. v. Douds, 339 U. S. 382, and United States v. Archie Browm, 381 U. S. 437, Section 9 (h) of the Taft-Hartley Act is constitutional;

“3. Whether the trial court erred in denying petitioners’ motions for the production, to the'defense or the Court, of grand jury testimony of prosecution witnesses.”

Gerhard P. Van Arkel, Charles F. Brannan, John F. O’Donnell, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., Eugene Cotton, Melvin L. Wulf, Jacob Sheinkman, Joseph M. Jacobs and John Ligtenberg for the American Civil Liberties Union et al., in support of the petition.