Legal Opinion
Yellin v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 17, 1963No. 35PublishedCited by 149 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Warren
delivered the opinion of the Court. .
This contempt of Congress case, stemming from investigations conducted by the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities, involves, among others, questions of whether the House Committee on Un-American Activities failed to comply with its rules and whether such a failure excused petitioner’s refusal to answer the Committee’s questions.
*111Petitioner Edward Yellin Was indicted in the Northern District of Indiana on five counts of willfully refusing to answer questions put to him by a Subcommittee of the House Committee on Un-American Activities (hereafter…
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