Bauer v. Watkins

L. HAND, Chief Judge.

Bauer has appealed from the denial of a second writ of habeas corpus, issued after our affirmance of the denial of bis first writ.1 We then held no more than that the judgment of the Seventh Circuit in the action for a declaratory judgment2 had conclusively established that he had forfeited his American citizenship by his induction into the German army dn 1940. The Seventh Circuit had said at the end of its opinion — which states all the facts so fully that we need not repeat them here— that it would not pass upon the question whether Bauer was a German or a French…