Legal Opinion
Ex parte Grayson
District Court, W.D. Washington
Decided July 17, 1914No. 2780PublishedCited by 1 opinion
Petition for a writ of habeas corpus by Marie Robina Grayson.
1Opinion of the Court
NETERER, District Judge.
On January 23, 1914, the acting Secretary of Labor ordered the petitioner, who was horn at Tridon, Bretagne, France, and who landed at the port of New York in 1903, to be deported for being in the United States in violation of the act of Congress approved February 20, 1907 (34 Stat. 898, c. 1134 [U. S. Comp. St. Supp. 1911, p. 499]), and amendments thereto, in that the petitioner “is a prostitute and has been found practicing prostitution subsequent to her entry into the United States.” The petitioner thereupon applied to this court for a writ of habeas corpus, on the…
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