KOEHLER v. U.S.

No. 199.

342 U.S. 852 (1951)

KOEHLER ET AL. v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

October 15, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elbert R. Jandt and Ben F. Foster for petitioners. Solicitor General Perlman, Assistant Attorney General McInerney and Robert S. Erdahl for the United States.


Certiorari denied. MR. JUSTICE BLACK is of the opinion certiorari should be granted. Dissenting memorandum filed by MR. JUSTICE JACKSON.

Memorandum by MR. JUSTICE JACKSON, dissenting.

This case involves the power of federal officials to bring state officials to punishment under the remnants of Reconstruction Period legislation.

The state officer in this case, I may observe, richly deserves severe punishment. But the question in the case is one of federal...

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