Legal Opinion
Lum Man Sing v. Acheson
District Court, D. Hawaii
Decided August 17, 1951No. Civ. No. 939PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
METZGER, Chief Judge.
This is the second time that this plaintiff has been before this Court on the question of citizenship. In 1941, he filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, which was granted and subsequently dismissed. In that proceeding, the petitioner alleged that, upon his return to Honolulu, Hawaii, after a visit to China, he was denied admission to the United States by a Board of Special Inquiry, composed of immigration officers, and that the order of that board had been sustained by the Department of Justice at Washington, D. C. From the order of this Court dismissing the writ,…
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