BRIDGES v. WIXON

No. 10450.

144 F.2d 927 (1944)

BRIDGES v. WIXON, District Director, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Department of Justice.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied September 27, 1944.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lee Pressman, Congress of Industrial Organizations, of Washington, D. C., Carol King, of New York City, and Gladstein, Grossman, Sawyer & Edises, Richard Gladstein, and Aubrey Grossman, all of San Francisco, Cal., for appellant.

Tom C. Clark, Asst. Atty. Gen., Edward G. Jennings, Sp. Asst. to the Atty. Gen., and John Ford Baecher, Atty., Department of Justice, of Washington, D. C., and Frank J. Hennessy, U. S. Atty., of San Francisco, Cal., for appellee.

Osmond K. Fraenkel and Benedict Wolf, both of New York City, for National Lawyers Guild, as amicus curiae.

Before WILBUR, GARRECHT, MATHEWS, STEPHENS, and HEALY, Circuit Judges.


WILBUR, Circuit Judge.

The appellant, in custody of the respondent under a warrant for deportation, sought release by habeas corpus in the District Court for the Northern District of California. That court issued an order to show cause and, upon the showing made by the return and traverse, denied the petition and remanded the petitioner to the custody of the respondent. From that order the petitioner appeals to this court...

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