 During their interviews they named several people whom they accused of holding left-wing views.Lardner appeared before the HUAC on October 30, 1947, but like Alvah Bessie, Herbert Biberman, Albert Maltz, Adrian Scott, Dalton Trumbo, Lester Cole, Edward Dmytryk, Samuel Ornitz and John Howard Lawson, he refused to answer any questions.Known as the "Hollywood Ten", they claimed that the First Amendment to the United States Constitution clearly gave them the right to do this.