UNITED STATES v. CURRAN

No. 342.

12 F.2d 639 (1926)

UNITED STATES ex rel. FEMINA v. CURRAN, Commissioner of Immigration.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

June 1, 1926.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Emory R. Buckner, U. S. Atty., of New York City (Samuel C. Coleman, Asst. U. S. Atty., of New York City, of counsel), for appellant.

Frank J. Rinaldi, of New York City, for appellee.

Before HOUGH, MANTON, and HAND, Circuit Judges.


HOUGH, Circuit Judge (after stating the facts as above).

Whether it is or is not a somewhat hypocritical assumption of moral superiority to forbid the entry into this country of aliens with lax views of the marriage vow, and privately addicted to freedom in sexual relations, is a point not without interest, but quite immaterial to such a case as this.

The language above quoted from the Immigration Act has been in similar statutes for nearly 20 years; it was...

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