United States v. Lombard

BURKE, District Judge.

The defendants move to dismiss the indictment herein on the ground that it fails to state facts sufficient to constitute a crime. The indictment charges the defendants with conspiring together and with others unknown to the grand jury to induce electricians employed on the construction of public buildings at Sampson Naval Training Station to give up part of the compensation to which they were entitled under their contracts of employment, by intimidation and threats of procuring their dismissal from employment.

It is alleged in the indictment that the defendants are…