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UNITED STATES v. VADNER

Civ. No. 15699.

119 F.Supp. 330 (1954)

UNITED STATES v. VADNER et al.

United States District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

January 12, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Brian Holland, Asst. Atty. Gen., Andrew D. Sharpe, Edward W. Rothe, Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen., W. Wilson White, U. S. Atty., Norman Kron, Asst. U. S. Atty., for plaintiff.

A. Allen Simon, Philadelphia, Pa., for defendants.

Speiser, Satinsky, Gilliland & Packel, Philadelphia, Pa., for Walter Bryant Pierce.

KIRKPATRICK, Chief Judge.

I am of the opinion that the defendant's refusal, based on the Fifth Amendment privilege against self incrimination, to make disclosure of his assets, was justified by the recent decisions of the Supreme Court in the Hoffman v. United States, 341 U.S. 479, 71 S.Ct. 814, 95 L.Ed. 1118; Greenberg v. United States, 343 U.S. 918, 72 S.Ct. 674, 96 L.Ed. 1332, and Singleton v. United States, 343 U.S. 944, 72 S.Ct...

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