1950

• The Federal Bureau of Investigation releases its first Ten Most Wanted list.
• On January 21, Alger Hiss, a former State Department official, is found guilty of perjury by a federal jury in New York.
• On February 20, the Supreme Court upholds the legality of warrantless searches of a lawfully arrested person and the immediate premises where the arrest occurred.
• On April 10, the Supreme Court upholds the convictions of Hollywood screenwriters John Howard Lawson and Dalton Trumbo for contempt of Congress.
• On April 24, the Supreme Court reverses a criminal conviction based on an indictment by a grand jury that excluded African Americans.
• On May 8, the Supreme Court upholds provisions of the Taft-Hartley Labor Act which deny unions access to the National Labor Relations Board if their officers refuse to swear they are not affiliated with the Communist party.
• On June 5, the...