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WILKINSON v. UNITED STATES

No. 37.

365 U.S. 399 (1961)

81 S.Ct. 567

5 L.Ed.2d 633

WILKINSON v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 27, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rowland Watts argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the brief was Nanette Dembitz.

Kevin T. Maroney argued the cause for the United States. With him on the briefs were Solicitor General Rankin, Assistant Attorney General Yeagley, Bruce J. Terris, Lee B. Anderson and George B. Searls.

David Scribner, Ben Margolis and William B. Murrish filed a brief for the National Lawyers Guild, as amicus curiae, urging reversal.

MR. JUSTICE STEWART delivered the opinion of the Court.

The petitioner was convicted for having unlawfully refused to answer a question pertinent to a matter under inquiry before a subcommittee of the House Committee on Un-American Activities at a hearing in Atlanta, Georgia, on July 30, 1958.1 His conviction was affirmed by the Court of Appeals, which held that our decision in Barenblatt<...

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