Editing Sumner Redstone (section)

===Legal career===
After completing law school, Redstone moved to [[San Francisco]] to become a clerk with the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit]], a job that then paid $43 per week. While employed by the Ninth Circuit, Redstone also taught labor law courses in the evenings at [[University of San Francisco School of Law]].<ref name="early legal">{{harvnb|Hagey|2018|pp=59-60}}</ref> Beginning in 1948, Redstone joined the [[United States Department of Justice Tax Division]] as a staff attorney with the appellate tax division, in the immediate aftermath of the Supreme Court case ''[[United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc.]]'' when the government was actively combating anti-competitive practices among [[Paramount Pictures]] and other major film studios.<ref name="early legal"/>

After two years with the Justice Department, Redstone followed his supervisors to private practice in 1950.<ref name="early legal"/> Then in 1951, Redstone became a partner of the firm Ford, Bergson, Adams, Borkland, & Redstone with two of his former Justice Department supervisors Herbert Bergson and Herbert Borkland, along with former Deputy Attorney General [[Peyton Ford]].<ref name="early legal"/> In the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court case ''Holland v. United States'', Redstone represented the plaintiffs, a married couple of hotel owners convicted of tax evasion following a sudden rise in their net worth.<ref name="early legal"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/348/121/|title=Holland v. United States, 348 U.S. 121 (1954)|publisher=Justia|accessdate=October 16, 2023}}</ref> Although the court would uphold their conviction, Redstone's argument that the government had the burden of proof in proving tax evasion in unusual increases in net worth would later become [[Internal Revenue Service]] policy.<ref name="early legal"/><ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/social-sciences-and-law/business-leaders/sumner-redstone|title=Redstone, Sumner M. 1923–|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of World Biography|accessdate=October 18, 2023}}</reF>