Legal Opinion
United States Ex Rel. Knauff v. McGrath Attorney General
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided March 28, 1950No. 21616_1PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FRANK, Circuit Judge.
Respondents in their brief concede that the applicable statutory provision is 8 U.S.C.A. § 154 which provides: “All aliens brought to this country in violation of law shall be immediately sent back * * * to the country whence they respectively came, on the vessels bringing them, unless in the opinion of the -Attorney General immediate deportation is not practicable or proper.” That “deportation” in that context includes “exclusion” seems clear on the face of the statute.3
Respondents also, on oral argument of this appeal, conceded that, on the pleadings as they now stand,…
2Cases cited40 opinions
- Yick Wo v. HopkinsSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
- United States v. American Trucking AssociationsSupreme Court of the United States · 1940
- Wong Yang Sung v. McGrathSupreme Court of the United States · 1950
- Connolly v. Union Sewer Pipe Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1902
- Gray v. PowellSupreme Court of the United States · 1941
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3Cited by14 opinions
- Constantinos Roumeliotis and Panayota Roumeliotis, His Wife v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1962
- United States Ex Rel. Adel v. Shaughnessy, District Director of Immigration and NaturalizationCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1950
- United States Ex Rel. Accardi v. ShaughnessyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1953
- Federal Broadcasting System, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission, Whec, Inc., Intervenor, Veterans Broadcasting Company, Inc., IntervenorCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1955
- United States v. W. B. Enterprises, Inc.District Court, S.D. New York · 1974
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