United States v. Zucca

Mr. Justice Clark, with whom Mr. Justice Reed and Mr. Justice Minton join,

dissenting.

The Court’s ruling today seriously obstructs the Government in filing denaturalization proceedings in this type of case. It reverses a long line of cases in the lower federal courts 1 and disregards a consistent administrative practice of over thirty years standing, a period which *101includes two recodifications of the immigration laws. Furthermore, the identical point on which the case today is decided was present in two earlier cases where it apparently was not considered important enough to be presented to…