Sanford J. Rosen Legal Files on Alger Hiss
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Sanford Jay Rosen is a founding and senior partner at Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld LLP in San Francisco, California, where he concentrates his practice on constitutional and civil rights law, employment law, consumer law, complex commercial litigation, and litigation involving attorneys. He was working for the American Civil Liberties Union during the time he was Alger Hiss' attorney in the 1972 Hiss et al. v. Hampton et al. case. The plaintiffs' annuity applications were denied due to certain provisions of the "Hiss Act." Rosen's papers relate to his time as Alger Hiss' lawyer during this 1972 case to restore his federal pension. Materials include drafts and research for memos, correspondence, and legal research, as well as files related to Alger Hiss' friendship with Mr. Rosen.
Biographical Note
Sanford Jay Rosen is a founding and senior partner at Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld LLP in San Francisco, California, where he concentrates his practice on constitutional and civil rights law, employment law, consumer law, complex commercial litigation, and litigation involving attorneys. He was working for the American Civil Liberties Union during the time he was Alger Hiss' attorney in the 1972 Hiss et al. v. Hampton et al. case.
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Sanford Jay Rosen's papers relate to his time as Alger Hiss' lawyer during a case to restore his federal pension. Materials include drafts and research for memos, correspondence, and legal research from the Hiss et al. v. Hampton et al. case, as well as files related to Alger Hiss' friendship with Mr. Rosen.
Former employees of the federal government, plaintiffs in the Hiss v. Hampton case had applied for annuities under the Civil Service Retirement Act. Their applications were denied by the Civil Service Commission due to certain provisions of the "Hiss Act." In the Hiss v. Hampton case, Sanford J. Rosen won a dispositive summary judgment motion that declared the Hiss Act an unconstitutional ex post facto law.
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Materials are open without restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Any rights (including copyright and related rights to publicity and privacy) held by Sanford J. Rosen, the creator of this collection, were relinquished and transferred to the public domain in September 2018 by Sanford J. Rosen. These materials are governed by a Creative Commons CC0 license, which permits publication and reproduction of materials accompanied by full attribution. See, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date; Sanford J. Rosen Legal Files on Alger Hiss; TAM 736; box number; folder number; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.
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Donated by Sanford Jay Rosen, September 2018. The accession number associated with this gift is 2019.002.
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