Miller v. Board of Regents of the University

The petitioners are doctors. They were convicted in the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia for contempt of Congress for the refusal to produce certain records before a Congressional committee. That offense is a misdemeanor, therefore a crime. (U. S. Code, tit. 2, § 192.) Their conviction was affirmed by the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (Barsky v. United States, 167 F. 2d 241), and certiorari was twice denied by the Supreme Court. (334 U. S. 843, petition for rehearing denied 339 U. S. 971.)

Subsequently the Board of Regents of the State of New…