Legal Opinion
United States v. Henry Gregory Varlack, Samuel Kavalauskas and David Bernard Roche, and James Thomas Moock, Clifford Carter and Lawrence Wagner
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 25, 1955No. 23606_1PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEDINA, Circuit Judge.
This appeal by defendants Varlack, Kavalauskas and Roche raises various questions relative to the validity and interpretation of 18 U.S.C. § 1951, commonly referred to as the Hobbs Act or the Anti-Racketeering statute. The indictment contained two counts, the first charging all three with conspiring to obstruct, delay and affect commerce and the movement of articles and commodities in commerce by extortion, specifically, by using their positions in the International Longshoremen’s Association to obtain property from the American Sugar Refining Company by the wrongful use…
2Cases cited8 opinions
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- United States v. CompagnaCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1944
- Carl Bianchi v. United States of America, L. A. Thompson v. United States of America, William Poster v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1955
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3Cited by61 opinions
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