COMMR. OF IMMIGRATION v. GOTTLIEB

No. 221.

265 U.S. 310 (1924)

COMMISSIONER OF IMMIGRATION OF PORT OF NEW YORK v. GOTTLIEB ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 26, 1924.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. George Ross Hull, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, with whom Mr. Solicitor General Beck was on the brief, for petitioner.

Mr. Louis Marshall, with whom Mr. Joseph G.M. Browne, Mr. Barnet E. Kopelman, Mr. J. Philip Berg and Mr. Max J. Kohler were on the briefs, for respondents.


MR. JUSTICE SUTHERLAND delivered the opinion of the Court.

The respondents are the wife and infant son of Solomon Gottlieb, a rabbi of a synagogue in New York City. They are natives of Palestine who sought admission to this country in December, 1921.

After a hearing before the Board of Special Inquiry at Ellis Island, they were ordered deported, on the ground that the quota of immigrants entitled to be admitted had already been filled. Upon habeas corpus...

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