Hampton v. Mow Sun Wong

Five aliens, lawfully and permanently residing in the United States, brought this litigation to challenge the validity of a policy, adopted and enforced by the Civil Service Commission and certain other federal agencies, which excludes all persons except American citizens and natives of American Samoa from employment in most positions subject to their respective jurisdictions.1 Because the policy, the law, and the identity of the parties have changed somewhat since the litigation commenced, *91we state the facts in detail before addressing the important question which we granted certiorari to…