The New York State Wald Act, which makes it a crime to obliterate or hide marks of origin of goods imported from abroad, will receive its first constitutionality test in the case brought by the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League against the Dennison Manufacturing Company, when the charges filed by the League against the company for violating the act are heard in Special Sessions Court this week. The case is scheduled for Thursday.
Since the case involves important legal questions, Dr. M. S. Fischer, of the legal committee of the League, has asked permission to file a brief regarding the constitutionality of the act. Samuel Untermyer, president of the League, and Barnet A. Kopelman, who represented it in the court proceedings, will also file briefs.
The Dennison Company was held for Special Sessions after a hearing in Magistrates’ Court on the charge of having covered a “Made in Germany” price tag on a small china figure in order to hide the country of its origin.
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