The Supreme Court today deferred action on the request of Louis Ottenberg, representing several Jewish organizations, that they be permitted to intervene in the appeal of the Schnectady Union-Star from a Circuit Court decision ordering to trial a libel suit against the paper by Rep. Martin Sweeny of Ohio.
The suit is one of many filed by the Congressman against papers carrying a syndicated column which charged that Sweeny had opposed the appointment of an Ohio official because he was “a foreign-born Jew.” Ottenberg told the court that his clients, the American Jewish Committee, the B’nai B’rith and the Jewish Peoples Committee, sought permission to intervene because Sweeny’s suit brought up a question of freedom of press and freedom of speech affecting the country at large.
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