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UNITED STATES EX REL. JOHNSON v. SHAUGHNESSY

No. 506.

336 U.S. 806 (1949)

UNITED STATES EX REL. JOHNSON v. SHAUGHNESSY, ACTING DISTRICT DIRECTOR OF IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 9, 1949.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gunther Jacobson argued the cause and filed a brief for petitioner.

Patricia H. Collins argued the cause for respondent. With her on the brief were Solicitor General Perlman, Assistant Attorney General Campbell, Robert S. Erdahl and Philip R. Monahan.

Jack Wasserman, Gaspare Cusumano and Thomas M. Cooley, II, filed a brief for the Association of Immigration and Nationality Lawyers, as amicus curiae, urging reversal.

MR. JUSTICE BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court.

The American Foreign Service at Stockholm issued to petitioner an immigration visa to come to the United States as a Swedish quota immigrant. On the ground that she was a mental defective, authorities of the Immigration and Naturalization Service declined to admit her into this country and ordered her detention at Ellis Island pending deportation to Sweden. She filed this...

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