Samuel Klapholz v. P. A. Esperdy, as District for the New York District of the Immigration Andnaturalization Service

This is an appeal from a summary judgment which dismissed a complaint seeking review of an exclusion order issued by the District Director for the New York District of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1 and a declaratory judgment that Klapholz, an alien, was admitted to the United States as an immigrant. In the District Court Klapholz challenged the exclusion order on numerous grounds, all of which were rejected in a comprehensive and well reasoned opinion by Judge Thomas F. Murphy. 2 The principal facts are not in dispute. Klapholz, possessed of a valid immigration visa, was taken…