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...sweeping interpretation of an already sweeping decision, U.S. District Judge Luther W. Youngdahl in Washington last week shortened the leash that the Supreme Court recently tied to congressional investigating committees. Taking off from the Supreme Court's ruling in the Watkins case (TIME, July 1), Youngdahl set aside the contempt-of-Congress conviction of the New York Times's Copyreader Seymour Peck, who last year declined to tell a Senate Internal Security subcommittee the names of Reds he had known during the twelve years he was a Communist (he quit the party...
Only four months ago, ruling on the same set of facts, Judge Youngdahl refused defendant Peck's motion for acquittal. Speedily convicted by a federal jury in Washington, Peck was fined $500 and got a suspended sentence of 30 days. But while his appeal was pending, the Supreme Court decreed in the Watkins case that congressional committees must make clear to a witness that their questions are pertinent to contemplated legislation. Judge Youngdahl ruled that this aspect of the Watkins decision applied to the Peck case, and went on to newer ground. By asking Peck to reveal associations "remote...
...passing, Judge Youngdahl dropped a dictum that just about seemed to bar congressional investigating committees from questioning newsmen at all. "To inhibit the freedom of thought and association of newspapermen," he said, "is to infringe upon the freedom of the press...
...Harrison from distributing his magazine to news dealers through the mails. He and his two lawyers, Edward Bennett Williams and Daniel Ross, immediately started a civil action against Summerfield, claiming the order was a "clear violation of the Constitution." They were right. On October 7, District Judge Luther W. Youngdahl ordered the Post Office to rescind its order...
...Judge Youngdahl's ruling was a clear-cut victory for Confidential, even though Harrison must submit two copies of each issue to the Post Office before using the mails. As Ross gleefully pointed out, "If the officials think any particular issue is obscene, they must ask for a hearing and can't interfere with the distribution of that number. And even if the examiner finds the issue was obscene, a recent ruling has established the precedent that just because one issue of a publication is obscene does not mean that all issues are obscene." In other words, the same process...