SHAUGHNESSY v. UNITED STATES EX REL. ACCARDI.

No. 616.

349 U.S. 280 (1955)

SHAUGHNESSY, DISTRICT DIRECTOR, IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, v. UNITED STATES EX REL. ACCARDI.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 23, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marvin E. Frankel argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the brief were Solicitor General Sobeloff, Assistant Attorney General Olney, Beatrice Rosenberg and J. F. Bishop.

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


MR. JUSTICE CLARK delivered the opinion of the Court.

We are called upon in this case to remove ambiguities from a previous opinion which, while clear enough to the trial court, appears to have conveyed a triplicity of meaning to the Court of Appeals. A year ago Accardi was here contesting the dismissal of his habeas corpus petition in which he attacked the refusal of the Board of Immigration Appeals to grant his application for suspension of deportation. Accardi...

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