United States Ex Rel. Turner v. Williams
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. John Turner filed in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York, October 26, 1903, a pétition alleging— “ First.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. John Turner filed in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York, October 26, 1903, a pétition alleging— “ First. That on October 23 in the city of New York your relator was arrested by divers persons claiming to be acting by authority of the Government of the United S-tates and was by said persons conveyed to the' United States immigration, station at Ellis Island in the harbor of New York, and is now there imprisoned by the Commissioner of Immigration of the port , of New…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
This appeal was taken diréctly to this court on the ground that the ^case • involved the construction or application of the Constitution of. the United States, and that the constitutionality of a law of the United States was drawn in question ; and although it may be, as argued by the Government, that the principles which must control our decision have been practically settled, we think, the whole record considered, that we are not constrained to dismiss the appeal for that reason.
It is contended that the act of March 3,T903, is. unconstitutional because in contravention of the' First, Fifth…
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