Watkins v. United States (354 U.S. 178)

Watkins v. United States (354 U.S. 178) by the Supreme Court of the United States Syllabus

related portals: Supreme Court of the United States. Watkins v. United States, 354 U.S. 178 (1957), was a case brought to the Supreme Court of the United States after John Watkins was convicted under 2 U.S.C. 192, for failing to answer questions while posed as a witness relating to people he may have known to be communist. Under a committee of the House of Representatives Committee on Un-American Activities, Watkins stated he did not wish to answer these questions, as they were outside of the scope he had been called upon, and of the committee. — Excerpted from Watkins v. United States on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

United States Supreme Court

354 U.S. 178

WATKINS  v.  UNITED STATES (354 U.S. 178)

 Argued: March 7, 1957. --- Decided: June 17, 1957

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Mr. Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., Washington, D.C., for petitioner.

Sol. Gen. J. Lee Rankin, Washington, D.C., for respondent.

Mr. Chief Justice WARREN delivered the opinion of the Court.

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