The following excerpt is from United States v. Frank, 494 F.2d 145 (2nd Cir. 1974):
The Government challenges defendant's legal position.18 Relying on Kern v. Hettinger, 303 F.2d 333, 340 (2 Cir. 1962), it argues that the question of the effect of convictions in this case in a civil suit in a federal district court is one of federal law and, implicitly, that it should be decided in the negative.
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