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CHINESE AM. CIVIC COUNCIL v. ATTY. GEN. OF U. S.

No. 75-1870.

566 F.2d 321 (1977)

CHINESE AMERICAN CIVIC COUNCIL et al., Appellants, v. ATTORNEY GENERAL OF the UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided October 11, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack Wasserman, Washington, D.C., with whom Mark A. Mancini, Washington, D.C., was on the brief for appellants.

Richard I. Chaifetz, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., with whom B. Franklin Taylor, Jr., Acting Chief, Government Regulations Section, Crim. Div., Dept. of Justice, and James P. Morris, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., were on the brief for appellee.

Before TAMM and MacKINNON, Circuit Judges, and KAUFMAN, District Judge for the District of Maryland.

Opinion for the court filed by Circuit Judge MacKINNON.

Opinion filed by KAUFMAN, District Judge, concurring specially.

MacKINNON, Circuit Judge:

Between 1949 and 1956 the five Chinese appellants here fled to Hong Kong to escape communist persecution in their native land. They have resided in Hong Kong ever since. When their 1971-72 applications for conditional entry into the United States as Seventh Preference refugees were denied by the District...

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