BRIDGES v. WIXON

No. 788.

326 U.S. 135 (1945)

BRIDGES v. WIXON, DISTRICT DIRECTOR, IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 18, 1945.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Lee Pressman and Richard Gladstein, with whom Mrs. Carol King and Mr. Aubrey Grossman were on the brief, for petitioner.

Solicitor General Fahy, with whom Assistant Attorney General Tom C. Clark, Messrs. Robert S. Erdahl and Leon Ulman were on the brief, for respondent.

Messrs. Arthur Garfield Hays, Bartley C. Crum, Isaac Pacht, A.L. Wirin and Osmond K. Fraenkel filed a brief on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union, as amicus curiae, in support of petitioner.

Miss Pearl M. Hart and Mr. Carl S. Stern filed a brief on behalf of the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, as amicus curiae, urging reversal.

Messrs. Ralph B. Gregg, W. Coburn Cook, Wallace L. Ware and Seth Millington filed a brief on behalf of the American Legion, as amicus curiae, urging affirmance.


MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS delivered the opinion of the Court.

Harry Bridges is an alien who entered this country from Australia in 1920. In 1938 deportation proceedings were instituted against him on the ground that he both had been and then was a member of or affiliated with the Communist Party of the United States and that that party advised and taught the overthrow by force of the government of the United States and caused printed...

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