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Act of 1954 requiring petitioner to testify. Petitioner persisted in his refusal to auswer, and was convicted of contempt and sentenced to {uprison- | the conviction. . Pennsylvania ve Nelson (1956) 350 U.S. 497 “a Nelson had been convicted of violating the Pennsylvania sedition act, but the conviction had been reversed by the state Supreme Court on the ground that the state Law had been superseded by the Smith Act passed by Congress in 1940. The Supreme Court affirmed this decision on the ground that the scheme of federal regulation is so pervasive as to make — reasonable the inference that Congress left no room for the states to supplement it. Slochower v. Board of Edycation (1956) 350 U.S, 551 A witness before a Congressional Coumittee refused to answer questions concerning membership in the Communist Party im 1940 and 194) on the ground that his answers might tend to incriminate him, Thereafter -he was summarily discharged ‘from his position as a teacher in a college eperated by New York City, pursuant to provision in New York City Charter that whenever a city euployee elaims the privilege against self-incrimination to avoid answering before a legislative committee a question concerning his official conduct, his employment shall terminate, Held that no inference of guilt can be drawn from claim of privilege before the federal committee and summary dismissal violated due process clause of the Fourteeath Ame nde nt. wAH Le ‘weat. The Supreme Court held the Immunity Act constitutional and sustained