Ex parte Quirin

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Ex parte Quirin

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Ex parte Quirin, 317 U.S. 1 (1942), is a Supreme Court of the United States case that upheld the jurisdiction of a United States military tribunal over the trial of several Operation Pastorius German saboteurs in the United States. Quirin has been cited as a precedent for the trial by military commission of any unlawful combatant against the United States. Warning: template has been deprecated.

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Ex parte Quirin

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Colonel Kenneth C. Royall, of Raleigh, N.C., for petitioners.

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Mr. Francis B. Biddle, Atty. Gen., for respondent.

PER CURIAM.

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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).

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