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MATSON v. JACKSON

368 Pa. 283 (1951)

Matson v. Jackson, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

June 27, 1951.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry F. Stambaugh, Special Counsel, with him Edward Friedman, Deputy Attorney General and Robert E. Woodside, Jr., Attorney General, for appellants.

Thomas D. McBride, with him Marjorie Hanson Matson and Michael von Moschzisker, for appellee.

William J. Woolston, Osmond K. Fraenkel, Arthur Garfield Hays and Herbert Monte Levy, for American Civil Liberties Union, amicus curiae.

Before DREW, C.J., STERN, STEARNE, JONES, BELL, LADNER and CHIDSEY, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE HORACE STERN, June 27, 1951:

On January 17, 1951 former Attorney General Margiotti wrote to District Attorney Rahauser of Allegheny County that he had appointed Samuel M. Jackson, Deputy Attorney General, to conduct a public hearing "into the alleged communistic leanings, sympathies and utterances of Mrs. Marjorie Hanson Matson, Assistant District Attorney of Allegheny County", and that the hearing would be conducted in a Common Pleas courtroom...

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