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-M- : Harisiades v. Shaughnessy (1952) 342 0.S. 560 Se ee : . The Aliex Registration Act of 1940, so fer es it authorized deportation of a legally resident alien because of membership in the Communist Party, even though such membership terminated before enactment of the act, was within the power ef Congress. U, S. v. Coplon, Cert. denied, 542 0.5. 920 (1952) Judith Coplon and Valentine A, Gubichev were convicted of conspiring to defraud the United States and the first named defendant was convicted alone of attempting to deliver defense information to a citizen of a fereign mation and she appealed, The Court of Appeals held that the evidence did not justify the arrest of defendant Coplon by agents of the FBI without a warrant because ef lack of evidence or likelihood of escape of such defendant, that the prosecution should be required to divulge the contents of wire tappings and that the examination as to a "confidential informant” should go far enough to show that he was mot a wire tapper. Reversed and remanded. Coplon v. U, S,, Cert. denied, 342 U.S. 926 (1952) | Judith Coplon was convicted for copying, taking, concealing and removing documents, of the Department of Justice, in which the defendant was an employee, to the injury of the U. 5. and to the advantages of a foreign nation. During pendesicy of appeal, defendant filed a motion for a new trial which was denied. From this denial defendant appealed and Court of Appeals considered latter motion separate from the record in the main j trial. The Court of Appeals held that while there was sufficient evidence to sustain the verdict of the jury, the District Court erred in holding that.