Legal Opinion
Lawson v. United States
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided June 13, 1949No. 9872, 9873PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CLARK, Circuit Judge.
John Howard Lawson, appellant in No. 9872, and Dalton Trumbo, appellant in No. 9873, have separately appealed from two separate judgments of the District Court convicting and sentencing them for separate violations of 2 U.S.C.A. § 192, 1 which makes it a misdemeanor to refuse to answer “any question [of a Congressional Committee] pertinent to the question under inquiry.” On motion of appellants, the two appeals were consolidated for oral argument before this court and this opinion will dispose of both appeals.
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