Legal Opinion
Chinese American Civic Council v. Attorney General
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided July 7, 1975No. Civ. A. 75-86PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
JOHN LEWIS SMITH, Jr., District Judge.
Plaintiffs in this action include an organizational sponsor and six Chinese aliens who have been denied conditional entry as refugees under 8 U.S.C. § 1153(a)(7) (1970). 1 The individual plaintiffs all fled from mainland China to Hong Kong between 1949 and 1956 and, with one exception, have remained in Hong Kong since their arrival. They challenge as arbitrary and capricious the changes in Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) practice which allegedly resulted in denial of their applications for entry into the United States. The…
2Cases cited12 opinions
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- Sierra Club v. MortonSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Association of Data Processing Service Organizations, Inc. v. CampSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Kleindienst v. MandelSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Song Jook Suh v. George K. Rosenberg, District Director, Immigration & Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1971
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3Cited by7 opinions
- Chinese American Civic Council v. Attorney General of the United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1977
- Refugio Silva v. Griffin B. Bell, United States Attorney GeneralCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1979
- Jaimez-Revolla v. BellCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1979
- Pena v. KissingerDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1976
- Jaimez-Revolla v. BellCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1979
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