Compagna v. United States, 324 U.S. 867 (1945): certiorari denied

The Supreme Court's order of 2 April 1945 denying the petitions for certiorari in the motion-picture extortion case. "Reported below: 146 F. 2d 524."

Date: 1945-04-02
Kind: court-opinion
Source: CourtListener (Free Law Project), text of the order
Retrieved: 2026-10-12
Docket: Nos. 935, 942, 946
Rights: An order of the Supreme Court of the United States. Works of the federal judiciary are in the public domain in the United States (17 U.S.C. § 105), and judicial opinions carry no copyright. The text was read on CourtListener.

Supreme Court of the United States, 2 April 1945, Nos. 935, 942 and 946. The order reads in full: “Petitions for writs of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied.” It adds, “Reported below: 146 F. 2d 524.”

The attorney listing shows William Scott Stewart for the petitioners in No. 935, “Francis Maritote, pro se,” and J. Bertram Wegman and Harold Simandl for the petitioner in No. 946, who were Louis Kaufman’s counsel in the Second Circuit. For the United States: Solicitor General Fahy, Assistant Attorney General Tom C. Clark, Robert S. Erdahl and Beatrice Rosenberg.

The order gives no reasons. With it the convictions affirmed in United States v. Compagna became final.

itemUnited States v. Compagna, 146 F.2d 524 (2d Cir. 1944)Second Circuit opinion of December 20, 1944 affirming the convictions of Compagna and six others for a conspiracy to extort money from motion-picture producers and exhibitors, 1935 to 1940.itemCompagna v. Hiatt, 340 U.S. 880 (1950)The Supreme Court's per curiam of 13 November 1950: "The judgment is affirmed by an equally divided Court. Mr. Justice Clark took no part in the consideration or decision of this case."