Gorin v. United States | |
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Argued December 19, 1940 Decided January 13, 1941 | |
Full case name | Gorin v. United States; Together with No. 88, Salich v. United States, also on certiorari, 310 U.S. 622, to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit |
Citations | 312 U.S. 19 (more) 61 S. Ct. 429; 85 L. Ed. 488; 1941 U.S. LEXIS 1033 |
Case history | |
Prior | 111 F.2d 712 (9th Cir. 1940) |
Court membership | |
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Case opinion | |
Majority | Reed, joined by Hughes, McReynolds, Stone, Roberts, Black, Frankfurter, Douglas |
Murphy took no part in the consideration or decision of the case. |
Gorin v. United States, 312 U.S. 19 (1941), was a United States Supreme Court case. It involved the Espionage Act of 1917 and its use against Mihail Gorin, an intelligence agent from the Soviet Union, and Hafis Salich, a United States Navy employee who sold to Gorin information on Japanese activity in the U.S.