Supreme Court of the United States / October Term 1948

Goggin, Trustee in Bankruptcy, v. Division of Labor Law Enforcement of California

Decided January 31, 1949. Harold Hitz Burton delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 35 · 336 U.S. 118 (1949)

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Decided 9–0.

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