Lau Ow Bew v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OE APPEALS EOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT. ‘ This is a writ of certiorari for the review of a judgment of the Circuit Court of Appeals for. the Ninth Circuit, affirming the judgment of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of California, in a case of habeas corpus, which determined that Lau Ow Bew, the appellant, is a Chinese person forbidden by law to land within the United States, and has no right to be or remain…
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CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OE APPEALS EOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT. ‘ This is a writ of certiorari for the review of a judgment of the Circuit Court of Appeals for. the Ninth Circuit, affirming the judgment of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of California, in a case of habeas corpus, which determined that Lau Ow Bew, the appellant, is a Chinese person forbidden by law to land within the United States, and has no right to be or remain therein, and ordered that he be deported out' of the country, and transported to the port in China whence he came. The…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
Before proceeding to dispose of this case upon the merits the question of jurisdiction, although not argued by counsel, must receive attention.
The act of Congress of March 3, 1891, establishing Circuit Courts of Appeals and defining and regulating the jurisdiction of the courts of the United States, 26 Stat. 826, c. 517, was passed to facilitate the prompt disposition of cases in this court and to relieve it from the .oppressive burden of general litigation, which impeded the examination of cases of public concern, and operated to the delay of suitors. In re Woods, 143 U. S. 202.
By section 4,…
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