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sister projects: Wikipedia article, Wikidata item.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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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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