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Attorneys for Samuel L. Popkin, assistant professor of Government, will argue their appeal of his March 29 contempt finding mainly on grounds of protection under the First Amendment...
William P. Homans Jr. '41 and Daniel Klubock, Popkin's attorneys, filed their 56-page brief yesterday for an April 19 hearing before the First U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...
...Popkin was found in civil contempt for refusing to answer nine questions before the Boston grand jury investigating the Pentagon Papers case. That finding, by Federal District Court Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr., was made without regard to the First Amendment question...
...were these contacts, the jury countered. Popkin repeatedly invoked a narrow definition of the First Amendment--protection of the identities of sources under freedom of speech, press and assembly...
...these First Amendment answers that Popkin faces a hearing on whether he should be found in contempt. "The prosecution's argument is based on the questions that I did not answer." Popkin said yesterday, "and not on those that I did answer...