Legal Opinion
Yates v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 17, 1957No. 6PublishedCited by 1,219 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harlan
We brought these cases here to consider certain questions arising under the Smith Act which have not heretofore been passed upon by this Court, and otherwise to review the convictions of these petitioners for conspiracy to violate that Act. Among other things, the convictions are claimed to rest upon an application of the Smith Act which is hostile to the principles upon which its constitutionality was upheld in Dennis v. United States, 341 U. S. 494.
These 14 petitioners stand convicted, after a jury trial in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California, upon a…
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