SHAUGHNESSY v. UNITED STATES EX REL. MEZEI.

No. 139.

345 U.S. 206 (1953)

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

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 16, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ross L. Malone, Jr. argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the brief were Solicitor General Cummings, John F. Davis, L. Paul Winings and Maurice A. Roberts.

Jack Wasserman argued the cause and filed a brief for respondent.


MR. JUSTICE CLARK delivered the opinion of the Court.

This case concerns an alien immigrant permanently excluded from the United States on security grounds but stranded in his temporary haven on Ellis Island because other countries will not take him back. The issue is whether the Attorney General's continued exclusion of respondent without a hearing amounts to an unlawful detention, so that courts may admit him temporarily to the United States on bond until arrangements...

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