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Joe Stern

AKA: Joseph Stern
Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1950s
State:Ohio
Support
Labor Organizing Civil Liberties
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Biography

Joe Stern was cited for contempt of the Ohio un-American activities commission in 1954. He was fined $500 and given 10 days.

Joseph Stern was convicted of contempt for declining to answer the Ohio Un-American Activities Commission, one of the co-appellants with Thomas Raley and Emmett Calvin Brown whose cases the Supreme Court reversed in Raley v. Ohio.

Cases

Charges: Contempt of the Ohio un-American activities commission.
Sentence: $500 fine and 10 days.
Convicted: Yes
Charges: Contempt — refusing to answer the Ohio Un-American Activities Commission
Sentence: Convicted of contempt; co-appellant in Raley v. Ohio Verdict as recorded: Convicted of contempt; appealing
Convicted: Yes