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UNITED FEDERAL WORKERS OF AMERICA v. MITCHELL

Civil Action No. 24007.

56 F.Supp. 621 (1944)

UNITED FEDERAL WORKERS OF AMERICA (C. I. O.) et al. v. MITCHELL et al.

District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia.

August 3, 1944.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lee Pressman, of Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs.

Joseph M. Friedman, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen. (Francis M. Shea, Asst. Atty. Gen., Edward M. Curran, U. S. Atty., of Washington, D. C., and Tobias G. Klinger, of Cleveland, Ohio, and Jess G. Schiffmann, of New York City, on the brief), for defendants.

Before GRONER, Chief Justice, United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia, and BAILEY and MORRIS, Justices.

BAILEY, Justice.

This is an action brought to declare invalid, as in contravention of the Constitution of the United States, the second sentence of Section 9(a) of the Act of August 2, 1939, as amended, popularly known as the Hatch Act, 18 U.S.C.A. § 61h(a), 53 Stat. 1147, 1148, 54 Stat. 767, 56 Stat. 181, and to enjoin the defendants, members of the United States Civil Service Commission, "from enforcing, threatening to enforce, or otherwise acting" pursuant...

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