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

DANAHER, Circuit Judge.

Appellant in a declaratory judgment action asked the District Court to declare void deportation proceedings as conducted before the Board of Immigration Appeals. Cross motions for summary judgment having been filed, the Government’s motion was granted, and appellant’s motion was denied and his complaint was dismissed. This appeal followed. Pending hearing on the merits, we stayed deportation. Karayannis v. Brownell, 1957, 101 U.S.App.D.C. 220, 248 F.2d 80.

Appellant, a citizen and native of Greece, first entered the United States as a seaman in May, 1946. He married an…