Legal Opinion
Samaniego v. Brownell
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided May 6, 1954No. 14722PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RUSSELL, Circuit Judge.
This appeal is from a final judgment dismissing appellant’s petition for the writ of habeas corpus by which he sought to be admitted to the United States for the limited purpose of prosecuting his. claim to United States citizenship. The district court, following its decision in Avina v. Brownell, D.C., 112 F.Supp. 15, dismissed the petition as being prematurely filed.
The allegations of the petition, taken as being true for present purposes, show that appellant was born in Webb County* Texas, in 1923. When he was six months; old his parents moved with him to the…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- United States v. Sing Tuck or King Do & Thirty-OneSupreme Court of the United States · 1904
- United States Ex Rel. Medeiros v. WatkinsCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1948
- Florentine v. Landon, District Director of Immigration and NaturalizationCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1953
- Avina v. BrownellDistrict Court, S.D. Texas · 1953
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