Legal Opinion

Case of Fries

U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Pennsylvania

Decided April 15, 1799No. Case No. 5,126PublishedCited by 12 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtIredell, Circuit Justice

(charging jury).1 Gentlemen of the Grand Jury; The importance of the duties you are now called upon to fulfil, naturally increases with the increasing difficulties of our country. But however great those difficulties may be,' I am persuaded you will meet them with a firm and intrepid step, resolved, so far as you are concerned, that no dishonor or calamity (if any should await us) shall be ascribable to a weak or partial administration of justice.

If ever any people had reason to be thankful for a long and happy enjoyment of peace, liberty and safety, the people of these states surely have.…

2Cited by12 opinions

  1. Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. v. Nation EnterprisesSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
  2. Cramer v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1945
  3. Haupt v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1947
  4. United States v. Frank DeanCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1982
  5. Breese v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1913

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