KUM CHOR CHEE v. KATZENBACH

Civ. No. 2342.

252 F.Supp. 221 (1966)

KUM CHOR CHEE, Plaintiff, v. Nicholas KATZENBACH, Acting Attorney General of the United States of America, Defendant.

United States District Court D. Hawaii.

April 11, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

N. W. Y. Char, Honolulu, Hawaii, for plaintiff.

Herman T. F. Lum, U. S. Dist. Atty., by Peter A. Donahoe, Asst. Dist. Atty., Honolulu, Hawaii, for defendant.


TAVARES, District Judge.

Plaintiff seeks a decree that he is a citizen of the United States. He bases his claim on Section 503 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1940, 8 U.S.C. § 903, and on his assertion that Section 503 should be given retroactive effect. The defendant moves to dismiss, claiming that Section 503 was not meant to apply retroactively.

Plaintiff was born in China in 1921; in 1937 he applied for admission to the United States, claiming...

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