Legal Opinion
United States v. Kordel
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 24, 1970No. 87PublishedCited by 678 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stewart
The respondents are the president and vice president, respectively, of Detroit Vital Foods, Inc. They were convicted in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, along with the corporation, for violations of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. The Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reversed the respondents’ convictions on the ground that the Government’s use of interrogatories to obtain evi dence from the respondents in a nearly contemporaneous civil condemnation proceeding operated to violate their Fifth Amendment privilege against compulsory…
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