Legal Opinion
United States v. McKeever
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided November 17, 1958PublishedCited by 73 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HERLANDS, District Judge.
The two defendants, Thomas McKeever and Lawrence Morrison, now on trial, have been indicted under Title 18, U.S.C.A. § 1951, the Hobbs Anti-Racketeering Act. The charge is that the defendants conspired to commit extortion (Count 1) and that they actually committed forty-two acts of extortion (Counts 2-43).
The alleged victim named in the indictment is James J. Ball & Sons, Inc., a corporation that had a union contract with Local 205 of the International Longshoremen’s Association. The defendants are agents of Local 205. Two of the principals of the Ball company are…
2Cases cited8 opinions
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- Monroe v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1956
- Clifford L. Duke, Jr., Louis Glenn Ballard and Vic Buono v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1958
- United States v. Carmelo SansoneCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1956
- United States v. RappyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1946
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3Cited by73 opinions
- People v. ElyNew York Court of Appeals · 1986
- United States v. Larry Starks, in No. 74-1966 Appeal of Alonzo Robinson, in No. 74-1947. Appeal of Donald Everett Abney, in No. 74-1967Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1975
- United States v. Harold McMillanCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1975
- United States v. Earl Watson, Tony Maxwell and Mae Lillian BrownCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1979
- State v. LaversArizona Supreme Court · 1991
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