Commissioner of Immigration of Port of NY v. Gottlieb
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT. CertioraRI to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Appeals affirming a judgment of the District Court discharging two aliens by habeas corpus.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sutherland
The respondents are the wife and infant son of Solomon Gottlieb, a rabbi of a synagogue in New York City. They are natives of Palestine who sought admission to this country in December, 1921.
After a hearing before the Board of Special Inquiry at Ellis Island, they were ordered deported, on the ground that the quota of immigrants entitled to be admitted had already been filled. Upon habeas corpus proceedings in the Federal Court for the Southern District of New York it was held they were entitled to admission, irrespective of quota limitations, as the wife and child of a minister, who was…
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