UNITED STATES v. SHAUGHNESSY

No. 55, Docket 21754.

187 F.2d 137 (1951)

UNITED STATES ex rel. HARISIADES v. SHAUGHNESSY, District Director of Immigration and Naturalization.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided February 6, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carol King and Isidor Englander, New York City (William B. Cherevas and Blanch Freedman, New York City, of counsel), for appellant.

Irving H. Saypol, U. S. Atty. (Henry L. Glenn, Asst. U. S. Atty., Louis Steinberg, District Counsel, New York City, and Solomon Isenstein, Washington, D. C., and Max Blau, New York City, United States Department of Justice, Immigration and Naturalization Service, of counsel), for appellee.

Ira Gollobin, New York City, for American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, amicus curiae.

Before L. HAND, Chief Judge, and SWAN and AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judges.


SWAN, Circuit Judge.

This appeal brings before us the dismissal of a writ of habeas corpus in a deportation proceeding. The alien is a Greek who came to the United States in 1916 when a boy of thirteen years. He has lived here ever since, has married a United States citizen and is the father of two children who are still minors. On May 20, 1949 he was taken into custody for deportation to Greece. He sued out a writ of habeas corpus which came on for hearing before...

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