Legal Opinion
Pendergast v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 11, 1943No. Nos. 183, 186, 187PublishedCited by 146 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Douglas
Petitioners, together with one Street, now deceased, conceived and executed a nefarious scheme in fraud of the federal District Court and in corruption of the administration of justice. The short of it was that petitioners by fraud and deceit and through misrepresentations by attorneys induced the court to issue decrees effectuating a corrupt settlement of litigation. It happened this way:
Several insurance companies doing business in Missouri filed with the Superintendent of Insurance an increase in insurance rates which the Superintendent denied. The insurance companies filed over 130…
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