Philip Foreman, United States district attorney in New Jersey and a Jewish communal worker of Trenton, and Julius Henry Cohen, New York lawyer and counsel to the port authority, are two of the leading figures in yesterday’s decision by Federal Court Judge William Clark that the 18th amendment had never become part of the Constitution because it was ratified by the state legislatures rather than by constitutional conventions.
Mr. Foreman represented the government in the case of William Sprague which led to the decision while Mr. Cohen was one of the three attorneys for the defense.
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