316 U.S. 679
Docket No. 1097.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 4, 1942.
Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1942-05-04
1 counsel of record
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Decided 1942-05-04
Cited by 26 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1995 · most notably Catlin v. United States (1945), American Guaranty Co. v. Sunset Realty & Planting Co. (1944)
3 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
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¶1Messrs. John F. Finerty, Thomas H. Stone, and Morris Shapiro for petitioner. Mr. Abram P. Staples, Attorney General of Virginia, for respondent. Mr. Thur-good Marshall filed a brief on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union, as amicus curiae, in support of petitioner.
¶2The motion for leave to proceed on the typewritten record is granted. The petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia is denied.