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UNITED STATES EX REL. KNAUFF v. SHAUGHNESSY

No. 54.

338 U.S. 537 (1950)

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

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 16, 1950.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Philip R. Monahan argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief were Solicitor General Perlman, Assistant Attorney General Campbell, Joseph W. Bishop, Jr. and Robert S. Erdahl.

Jack Wasserman filed a brief for the American Civil Liberties Union, as amicus curiae, urging reversal.

MR. JUSTICE MINTON delivered the opinion of the Court.

May the United States exclude without hearing, solely upon a finding by the Attorney General that her admission would be prejudicial to the interests of the United States, the alien wife of a citizen who had served honorably in the armed forces of the United States during World War II? The District Court for the Southern District of New York held that it could, and the...

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