Biography
William Ullman, identified in the DOJ bulletin as William Ludwig Ullmann, was the subject of the first Supreme Court test of the 1954 Immunity Act. He was convicted of contempt for refusing a federal district court order to testify before a federal grand jury in the Southern District of New York. The Supreme Court affirmed that conviction on March 26, 1956. The reviewed source does not establish physical custody dates or total confinement.
The DOJ report identifies the first immunity-law test as William Ludwig Ullmann v. United States. It concerns contempt of a federal district court order to testify before a federal grand jury in the Southern District of New York, not contempt of Congress or refusal to answer a congressional committee. The Supreme Court affirmed on March 26, 1956 by seven votes to two. The report explicitly says the Act’s separate provisions for congressional committees had not yet been tested. This corrects the procedural setting of the existing immunity-law profile; it supplies no physical custody dates or total served time.
