PHILIPPIDES v. DAY

No. 92.

283 U.S. 48 (1931)

PHILIPPIDES v. DAY, COMMISSIONER OF IMMIGRATION.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 23, 1931.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Thomas A. Kane and George C. Vournas submitted the cause for petitioner.

Mr. Claude R. Branch, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, with whom Solicitor General Thacher and Messrs. Harry S. Ridgely and W. Marvin Smith were on the brief, for respondent.


MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the Court.

The petitioner was arrested in New York on December 19, 1928, and after a hearing was ordered to be deported to Greece, on the ground that he had remained in the United States for a longer time than permitted under the Immigration Act of 1924 or the regulations made under it. He is a native of Greece; shipped from that country as a seaman and arrived at New York on September 10, 1925, when he deserted, and has...

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