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Legal Citation: 233 U.S. 604 (1914)

Petitioner
Samuel Gompers

Respondent
United States

Petitioner's Claim
That the alleged contempt took place more than three years before the proceedings began and therefore beyond the statute of limitations.

Chief Lawyer for Petitioner
Alton B. Parker

Chief Lawyer for Respondent
J. J. Darlington

Justices for the Court
William Rufus Day, Oliver Wendell Holmes (writing for the Court), Charles Evans Hughes, Joseph Rucker Lamar, Horace Harmon Lurton, Joseph McKenna, Edward Douglass White

Justices Dissenting
Mahlon Pitney, Willis Van Devanter

Place
Washington, D.C.

Date of Decision
11 May 1914

Decision
The Court reversed the decision of the lower court based on the statute of limitations to punish contempt was three...