Legal Opinion
Ceballos v. Shaughnessy
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 11, 1957No. 71PublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brennan
This declaratory judgment action was brought by petitioner, in March 1955 in the District Court for the Southern District of New York, to obtain a judgment against the District Director of Immigration declaring that petitioner was eligible for suspension of deportation and restraining the Director from taking him into custody for deportation. The District Court dismissed the complaint, without reaching the merits, upon the procedural ground “that the Attorney General [of the United States] and/or the Commissioner [of Immigration] are indispensable parties to the instant action.” The Court of…
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