A decree providing for a permanent injunction against the enforcement of the alien registration bill, which was declared unconstitutional by a three-judge Federal Court in December 1931, was requested by Theodore Levin and Patrick H. O’Brien Michigan’s Attorney-General-elect, who appeared for this purpose before Judge Ernest A. O’Brien. Judge O’Brien set December 19 as the date for the hearing, and sitting with him will be Judge Edward Moinet of the District Court and Judge Charles C. Simons of the United States District Court of Appeals.
The presentation to the court was made at this time for an immediate final disposition of the case because the Attorney General-elect was one of the attorneys for the plaintiff and the coming on of this case during his term of office might create an anomalous situation of an attorney general being one of the defendants in a case where he has previously been one of the attorneys for the plaintiff.
Fred M. Butzel, Detroit communal leader, and Max Kohler of New York were associate counsel with Theodore Levin and Patrick H. O’Brien in the legal battle against the alien registration bill.
Hyman Stein was elected president of the Covenant lodge, B’nai Brith, Duluth, Minn., at the annual meeting. Charles L. Littleman was elected vice-president; L. W. Eisenberg, recording secretary; Harry Segal, treasurer; Ben L. London, financial secretary; Reuben Shapiro. warden; Charles D. Oreckovsky, Isadore Zimmerman and Henry Lavick, trustees.
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