Epstratios Karayannis v. Herbert Brownell, Jr., Attorney General of the United States

We stayed a deportation order pending appeal because the appeal presented at least one substantial question which would otherwise become moot.

*81A New York decree annulling the marriage of the appellant alien, and the statute quoted in Judge Prettyman's dissent, are the only basis of the deportation order. The statute authorizes deportation of an alien who is “found to have secured [his] visa through fraud, by contracting a marriage which” is afterwards retroactively annulled. The statute says nothing about securing a marriage through fraud. It mentions none of the various grounds on which…