Rogers v. Larsen

MEMORANDUM OPINION

This action was commenced on March 14, 1975, when plaintiffs Alfred Rogers and Rupert Lespeare, nonimmigrant aliens present in the Virgin Islands pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a) (15) (H) (ii), filed suit for mandatory, *518declaratory and injunctive relief. Specifically, inter alia, they sought a declaration that 24 V.I.C., Chapter 6 and the amendments thereto* — but primarily 24 V.I.C. § 129, is unconstitutional as in conflict with the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, and contrary to the Revised Organic Act, 48 U.S.C. § 140g, as amended. They…