Legal Opinion
Chin Teung v. Skeffington
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided January 3, 1916No. 1095Published
Habeas corpus by Chin Teung against Henry J. Skeffington, Commissioner of Immigration.
1Opinion of the Court
MORTON, District Judge.
Habeas corpus to the immigration commissioner at Boston. The writ issued; and there was a hearing in open court upon the question of the petitioner’s right to be discharged.
The petitioner is a Chinaman. Deportation proceedings were instituted against him under the General Immigration Act (Act Feb. 20, *8601907, c. 1134, 34 Stat. 898), on the ground that he was an alien unlawfully in the United States. After a hearing before the immigration authorities he was ordered deported to China. He does not now contend that he was not accorded a fair hearing, nor that the entire…
2Cases cited4 opinions
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- United States ex rel. Moore v. SissonCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1913
- United States v. RuizCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1913
- Ex parte Jung SewDistrict Court, W.D. New York · 1914