KESSLER v. STRECKER

No. 330.

307 U.S. 22 (1939)

KESSLER, DISTRICT DIRECTOR OF IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION, v. STRECKER.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 17, 1939.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Solicitor General Jackson, with whom Assistant Attorney General McMahon, and Messrs. William W. Barron, Matthew F. McGuire, Benjamin M. Parker, and W. Marvin Smith were on the brief, for petitioner.

Messrs. Whitney North Seymour and C. Alpheus Stanfield, with whom Messrs. Herbert T. Wechsler and Carol King were on the brief, for respondent.

By leave of Court, briefs of amici curiae were filed by Mr. Martin Dies, urging reversal; and by Mr. Joseph R. Brodsky on behalf of the Communist Party of the United States, urging affirmance.


MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS delivered the opinion of the Court.

The respondent is an alien who entered the United States in 1912 and has since resided here. In 1933 he applied for naturalization to a United States District Court in Arkansas. He made certain admissions to a District Director of Naturalization as a result of which naturalization was withheld and his case was referred to the Department of Labor.

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