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Legal Citation: 208 U.S. 161 (1908)

Petitioner
William Adair

Respondent
United States

Petitioner's Claim
That Adair's conviction under the Erdman Act, which made it a crime to fire an employee for belonging to a labor union, should be reversed.

Chief Lawyers for Petitioner
Benjamin D. Warfield, Henry L. Stone

Chief Lawyers for Respondent
Charles Bonaparte, William R. Harr

Justices for the Court
David Josiah Brewer, William Rufus Day, Melville Weston Fuller, John Marshall Harlan I (writing for the Court), Rufus Wheeler Peckham, Edward Douglass White

Justices Dissenting
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Joseph McKenna (William Henry Moody did not participate)

Place
Washington, D.C.

Date of Decision
17 January 1908

Decision
The Court reversed the petitioner's...