Siminoff v. Esperdy

CLARK, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from a decision of Judge Dawson, Siminoff v. Murff, D.C.S.D.N.Y., 164 F.Supp. 34, granting summary judgment dismissing plaintiffs’ complaint. There is no dispute as to the material facts. Plaintiffs are aliens who have lived in this country for many years (20 to 53 in fact). They have been ordered deported because of membership in the Communist Party of the United States; these orders were entered as long ago as November 1951. Due apparently to exigencies of the cold war which are not likely to vanish overnight, the Immigration and Naturalization Service…