Tatsukichi Kuwabara v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Hawaii; Horace W. Vaughan, Judge. Habeas corpus by Tatsukichi Kuwabara against the United States. Prom a judgment discharging the writ, petitioner appeals.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Hawaii; Horace W. Vaughan, Judge. Habeas corpus by Tatsukichi Kuwabara against the United States. Prom a judgment discharging the writ, petitioner appeals. This is an appeal from a judgment dismissing a writ of habeas corpus the court below had granted the appellant upon a petition presented by him setting forth, among other things, that he is a subject of the Emperor of Japan and came from that empire to Hawaii July 12, 1917, by a certain named steamship, haying a duly authenticated passport issued by the proper…
1Opinion of the CourtRoss, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as. above). Section 3 of the Act of February 5, 1917, entitled “An act to regulate the immigration of aliens and the residence of aliens in the United States” (39 Stat. 875, c. 29 [Comp. St. 1918, § 428914b]), provides, among other things as follows:
“That the following classes of aliens shall he excluded from admission into the United States: * s; * Persons hereinafter called contract laborers, who have been induced, assisted, encouraged, or solicited to migrate to this country by offers or promises of employment, whether such offers or promises are true or false, or…
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