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1925-04-13

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Steele v. United States No. 2, 267 U.S. 505 (1925)

The Supreme Court held, 13 April 1925, that a general prohibition agent could be authorized to receive and serve a search warrant. The counsel line lists "Assistant Attorney General Willebrandt" on the brief for the United States.

Date: 1925-04-13
Kind: court-opinion
Source: CourtListener (Free Law Project), reprinting the opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States
Retrieved: 2026-10-12
Docket: 267 U.S. 505 (1925), No. 636
Rights: Opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States. Judicial opinions of the Court are not subject to copyright (17 U.S.C. § 105; Wheaton v. Peters). The text read here is CourtListener's scan-derived copy of the reported opinion.

Argued March 11, 1925, decided April 13, 1925; No. 636. Chief Justice Taft’s opinion held that a general prohibition agent could be authorized to receive and serve a search warrant under the provisions of the Espionage Act of 1917 incorporated in the National Prohibition Act, and “The judgment of the District Court is affirmed.”

The counsel line reads: “Solicitor General Beck, Assistant Attorney General Willebrandt, and Mr. Mahlon D. Kiefer, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, were on the brief for the United States.” The CourtListener text prints stray punctuation around her name from the scan. The case is filed for that line, which gives her title.

itemUnited States v. Sullivan, 274 U.S. 259 (1927)The Supreme Court holds, 16 May 1927, in an opinion by Justice Holmes, that gains from an unlawful liquor business are taxable income and that the Fifth Amendment did not excuse the defendant from filing a return at all.itemUnited States v. One Ford Coupe Automobile, 272 U.S. 321 (1926)The Supreme Court holds, 22 November 1926, that the National Prohibition Act did not displace Revised Statutes section 3450, so an automobile used to conceal tax-unpaid illicit liquor could be forfeited under that section.

itemMabel Willebrandt, half-length portrait (1920-1940)Library of Congress biographical-file photograph of Mabel Willebrandt seated in her law office, reading at a desk covered with papers and books. The Library's title is devised and the date spans 1920-1940.