Legal Opinion
Eisler v. United States
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided November 8, 1948No. 9582PublishedCited by 84 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CLARK, Associate Justice.
Appellant is an Austrian national who arrived in this country in 1941 as a political refugee, by virtue of a transit visa. On January 24, 1947, appellant was yet a temporary resident in this country and was on that date summoned by authority of the House of Representatives, through its Committee on Un-American Activities,1 to appear as a witness before that Committee on February 6, 1947. On January 31, 1947, the Chairman of the Committee wrote a letter to the Attorney General of the United States informing the latter that a subpoena had been served on appellant and…
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