United States v. Local 36 of International Fishermen & Allied Workers

HALL, District Judge.

The defendants’ motion to dismiss the indictment and their challenge and motion to strike out the entire trial jury panel are both based upon the same grounds. In view of the fact that the February 1946 grand jury which returned the indictment and the current trial jury panel were chosen from the names selected in the same method and manner by the jury commissioner and the clerk, the stipulation that the two motions might be heard together was approved.

Briefly stated, the contention is that the grand jury for the February 1946 term and the present trial jury panel were…