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UNITED STATES v. WALLACE CO.

No. 416.

336 U.S. 793 (1949)

69 S.Ct. 824

93 L.Ed. 1042

UNITED STATES v. WALLACE & TIERNAN CO. ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 2, 1949.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arnold Raum argued the cause for the United States. With him on the brief were Solicitor General Perlman, Assistant Attorney General Bergson and Beatrice Rosenberg.

Charles H. Tuttle argued the cause for appellees. With him on the brief were William H. Edwards, Edward T. Hogan, Laurence J. Hogan and S. Everett Wilkins, Jr.

MR. JUSTICE BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court.

The basic question here is whether the Fourth Amendment's prohibition of unreasonable searches and seizures bars the United States from utilizing certain documentary evidence in this civil antitrust proceeding instituted in the United States District Court of Rhode Island. Subsidiary procedural questions involve the doctrine of res judicata.1 We proceed at once to consideration...

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