Legal Opinion
Petition of Brooks
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided April 28, 1925No. 3052PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ANDERSON, Circuit Judge.
This habeas corpus case is an aftermath of Colyer v. Skeffington (D. C.) 265 F. 17. That case arose out of raids made by agents of the Department of Justice in January, 1920, when from 800 to 1,200 people were arrested in New England and several hundred after-wards incarcerated on Deer Island in Boston Harbor. The charge was that the persons thus lawlessly seized were engaged in a Red or Communistic plot to overthrow our form of government. After most of them were, for utter lack of evidence, discharged, habeas corpus proceedings were brought in this court in behalf of…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Fong Yue Ting v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1893
- United States Ex Rel. Bilokumsky v. TodSupreme Court of the United States · 1923
- Bugajewitz v. AdamsSupreme Court of the United States · 1913
- Skeffington v. KatzeffCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1922
- Colyer v. SkeffingtonDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 1920
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3Cited by24 opinions
- Pedro Rodriguez-Fernandez v. George C. Wilkinson, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1981
- Saksagansky v. WeedinCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1931
- Hermanowski v. FarquharsonDistrict Court, D. Rhode Island · 1999
- United States Ex Rel. Janavaris v. NicollsDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 1942
- Fernandez v. WilkinsonDistrict Court, D. Kansas · 1980
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