Legal Opinion
Ex parte McMahon
District Court, W.D. Washington
Decided October 3, 1924No. 8779PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NETERER, District Judge.
Section 19, Act Feb. 5, 1917 (Comp. Stat. 1918, Comp. St. Ann. Supp. 1919, § 4289:)4jj), provides: “The marriage to an American citizen of a female of the sexually immoral classes the exclusion or deportation of which is prescribed by this act shall not invest such female with United States citizenship if the marriage of such alien female shall be solemnized after her arrest or after the commission of acts which make her liable to deportation under this act.”
It is a far cry from 1909, the date of the entry of the petitioner, to May 10, 1924, the date of her arrest and…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Hopkins v. FachantCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1904
- Babbitt v. ReadDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1914
- Ex parte Tayohichi YamadaDistrict Court, W.D. Washington · 1924
3Cited by3 opinions
- United States ex rel. Shladzien v. Warden of Eastern State PenitentiaryDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1930
- Tillinghast v. Cresswell ex rel. Di PierroCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1931
- Di Pierro v. TillinghastDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 1930