Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. The case is stated in the opinion. - The question whether the subpoenas authorized an unreasonable search and seizure is separate from the question whether obedience would unconstitutionally compel self-incrimination. The. Fourth and Fifth Amendments are distinct.
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ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. The case is stated in the opinion. - The question whether the subpoenas authorized an unreasonable search and seizure is separate from the question whether obedience would unconstitutionally compel self-incrimination. The. Fourth and Fifth Amendments are distinct. Hale v. Henkel, 201 U. S. 43, 71, 72; Wilson v. United States, 221 U. S. 361, 371, The subpoenas are as specific as was reasonably possible. A subpoena duces tecum, like a search warrant, must necessarily be, to some extent, a demand for…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Holmes
This is a writ of error brought to reverse a judgment of the District Court fining the Silverthorne Lumber Company two hundred and fifty dollars for contempt of court and ordering Frederick W. Silverthorne to be imprisoned until he should purge himself of a similar contempt. The contempt in question was a refusal to obey subpoenas and an order of Court to produce books and documents of the company before the grand ,ury to be used in regard to alleged violation of the statutes of the United States by the said Silverthorne and his father. One ground of the refusal was that the order of the…
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