Asserting that the court’s censure had affected him more deeply than any other happening in his professional life, Samuel Untermyer asked the Supreme Court to remove from its record criticism of his conduct in a bankruptcy case recently decided, states an Associated Press despatch from Washington.
A decision handed down Jan. 2 by Chief Justice Taft arraigned Mr. Untermyer for what the court declared to be a demand by the lawyer for $70,000 of the fees paid to the Pittsburgh law firm of Weil & Thorp. Mr. Untermyer asked the court to permit him or counsel to appear in defense of his professional honor, and he expressed a hope that in any event the court would modify its censure of him. All the proceedings in the case in the lower courts had won for him, he said, only expressions of commendation.
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