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UNITED STATES v. MURFF

176 F.Supp. 253 (1959)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. TOM WE SHUNG, Relator, v. John L. MURFF, as District Director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the United States, Department of Justice, for the District of New York, or such person, if any, who may have said Relator in custody, Respondent.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

July 29, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Spar, Schlem & Burroughs, Martin A. Burroughs, New York City, of counsel, for relator.

Arthur H. Christy, U. S. Atty., New York City, Roy Babitt, Special Asst. U. S. Atty., New York City, of counsel, for respondent.

WEINFELD, District Judge.

Tom We Shung, the relator, by this habeas corpus proceeding, challenges the validity of an exclusion order which directs his deportation to the mainland of China via Hong Kong. This attempt to execute the exclusion order is the culmination of more than eleven years of litigation before the immigration authorities and the Courts, in which Shung unsuccessfully contended that he was entitled to admission to the United States as the minor son...

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