Each of the first three counts charged the defendants with conspiring, when the United States
was at war with the Imperial Government of Germany, to unlawfully utter, print, write and
publish: In the first count, "disloyal, scurrilous and abusive language about the form of Government
of the United States;" in the second count, language "intended to bring the form of Government
of the United States into contempt, scorn, contumely and disrepute;" and in the third count, language
"intended to incite, provoke and encourage resistance to the United States in said war." The charge�…

A. David ABRAMS, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant and Third-Party
Plaintiff, v. Frank G. LEONFORTE and Julyn Sportswear, Inc., Third-Party Defendants�… United
States District Court, SD West Virginia, at Beckley�… 1135 1136 1137 James C. Higgins,
Beckley, W. Va., for plaintiff�… W. Warren Upton, US Atty., Charleston, W. Va., for defendant
and third-party plaintiff�… Harold D. Brewster, Jr., Bluefield, W. Va., Barley & Goode, Welch,
W. Va., for third-party defendant, Frank G. Leonforte�… John T. Kay, Jr., Charleston, W. Va�…

The United States, plaintiff-appellee, brought an action against Harold J. Abrams,
defendant-appellant, to recover $650.00 paid by Abrams to one Bernard Barken for legal services
prior to and in connection with a general assignment for the benefit of creditors executed by Harber
Products, Inc. The District Court held that payment of the fee violated the statutory priority given
to debts owed the United States by � 3466, Revised Statutes (31 USCA � 191), [1] which priority
arose here because of Harber Products' indebtedness to the government for federal taxes, and�…

On appeal it is urged that the trial court committed reversible error in admitting into evidence,
over objection, an exhibit which established that the taxpayer's losses on his racing stable continued
from 1961 through 1965 and on his farm from 1961 through 1963. Appellant argues that on the
issue of his intent in 1960, his subsequent continuing losses are irrelevant. We believe that the
evidence was relevant and properly admitted. The only cases in point submitted by either the
government or the taxpayer both permitted evidence of so called "hobby" losses in years subsequent�…

What was said in Counselman v. Hitchcock, 142 US 547, 12 S. Ct. 195, 35 L. Ed. 1110, has apparently
been given a broad interpretation by the appellant and relied upon to justify his refusal to comply
with the direction of the court. However that may be, our decision on this appeal is, we think,
controlled by Mason v. United States, 244 US 362, 37 S. Ct. 621, 61 L. Ed. 1198. A proper disposition
of the claims of the appellant seems to be plain if one takes the questions he refused to answer
and inquires whether within reason it can be said that a truthful answer, whatever the fact may�…

This appeal is from a conviction for assaulting a policeman. 67 Stat. 95, � 205, DCCode,
Supp. IV (1955), � 22-505. The defendant contended that at the time of the alleged assault, which
he denied making, the policeman was arresting him illegally. The policeman was badly
injured. It was necessary to remove part of one rib; two ribs were broken; the collar bone was
separated from the shoulder blade, and had to be fastened with a screw; and there were spinal
injuries. If, as the jury found, the defendant struck the policeman, he inflicted these wounds. There�…

Appellants in these consolidated appeals are Joseph Abrams, Charles Gordon and John G.
Ledes. They were indicted for and convicted of conspiracy in violation of 18 USC � 371. The
alleged conspiracy, in brief, was that they and others had knowingly, willfully and unlawfully conspired
to defraud the United States (a) concerning its right to have the business and affairs of the Securities
and Exchange Commission administered free from self interest, bias and improper
influence, more particularly with respect to matters and proceedings concerning several named�…

Abrams, a formerly practicing accountant, was the principal stockholder and active head of a
corporation largely engaged in clothing manufacture for the government. Concededly, for one
reason or another, large payments purportedly to subcontractors and suppliers were incorrectly
made out and paid to others than those named on the checks and books. After an original Internal
Revenue audit for 1951 and 1952 was under way and recommendation was made by
Blacher, the auditing agent, that the taxpayer's figures be accepted, special agents of the intelligence�…

135 S.Ct. 417 (2014). 574 US 965. John Williams ABRAMS, petitioner, v. UNITED STATES.
No. 14-6298. Supreme Court of United States. October 20, 2014. Petition for writ of certiorari
to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit denied.

Plaintiff objects to the finding that the OCC's investigation is a legitimate law enforcement inquiry
within the meaning of RFPA. He contends that the OCC's power to conduct an investigative inquiry
and issue regulatory enforcement sanctions under 12 USC �� 1818 and 1820(c) is not the legal
equivalent of a legitimate "law enforcement inquiry" as required by 12 USC � 3405(1), and defined
at 12 USC � 3401(8). [1] Pl's Br. in Supp. of Objs. at 9. In other words, Plaintiff argues that the
Government's reliance upon the broad investigative and enforcement powers vested with the�…