Legal Opinion · Concurrence

Costanzo v. Tillinghast

Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Decided February 25, 1932No. 2643Published

1ConcurrenceMorton, District Judge

I concur for the reason that the present case is covered by the decision of this court in Cafara ex rel. De Filippo v. Tillinghast, 31 F.(2d) 1009.

As an original question this construction of the statute seems to me erroneous, and the view of it taken in Hughes, Commissioner, v. Tropello (C. C. A.) 296 F. 306, which I followed—the Cafara Case not being called to my attention—and somewhat elaborated in Tillinghast v. Cresswell, 54 F.(2d) 459 (C. C. A., 1st Cir.), decided December 17, 1931, to be the correct one. There are possibilities of shocking cruelty, as the cases show, in a deportation…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Hughes v. TropelloCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1924
  2. McLeod v. NagleCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1931
  3. Tillinghast v. Cresswell ex rel. Di PierroCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1931
  4. Cafara ex rel. De Filippo v. TillinghastCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1928

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