Wallis v. Fei Nei
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Appeal and Cross-Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District ot Louisiana; Rufus E. Foster, Judge.
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Appeal and Cross-Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District ot Louisiana; Rufus E. Foster, Judge. Habeas corpus by the United States, on the relation of Fei Nei and Chung (or Chang) Jung and of Ken Sew, against Joseph H. Wallis, assistant commissioner of immigration at the port of New Orleans, to obtain the release of the relators from deportation warrants In proceedings under Immigration Act Feb. 20, 1907, c. 1134, 34 Stat. 898, as amended by Act Match 26, 1910, c. 128, 36 Stat. 26-1. From the orders of the District Court for the Eastern District of…
1Opinion of the Court
GRUBB, District Judge.
These appeals are not to he distinguished in their facts or the applicable law from the case of Wallis, Assistant Commissioner of Immigration, v. United States, on relation of Ng Sam and others, 230 Fed. 71, - C. C. A. -, just decided, and are governed by the ruling in that case.
The orders of the District Court involved in the direct appeals, making the writs absolute and discharging the relators, Fei Nei and Chung (or Chang) Jung, are reversed, and the cases remanded to the District Court, with directions to discharge the writs at relators’ costs, and the order involved…
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- Wallis v. United States ex rel. Ng SamCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1916