Legal Opinion
Unification Church v. Attorney General for the United States
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided March 1, 1978No. Nos. 76-1909 and 77-1400PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by BAZELON, Chief Judge.
BAZELON, Chief Judge:
The Unification Church, also known as the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity, is an interfaith religious movement with membership in approximately 40 countries. The Church has established facilities at Tarrytown and Barrytown, New York, to train missionaries needed to staff its worldwide evangelical program. These two cases concern the efforts of the Church to bring aliens to the United States for missionary training at these facilities. In No. 76-1909 the Church appeals the Immigration and…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Kleindienst v. MandelSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Foti v. Immigration & Naturalization ServiceSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Mahler v. EbySupreme Court of the United States · 1924
- Cheng Fan Kwok v. Immigration & Naturalization ServiceSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Ashbacker Radio Corp. v. Federal Communications CommissionSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
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3Cited by8 opinions
- Gholamreza Narenji, Behzad Vahedi, Cyrus Vahidnia v. Benjamin Civiletti, Attorney General, Confederation of Iranian Students v. Benjamin R. CivilettiCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1980
- Majid Ghorbani v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1982
- Keiko Asai v. Leonel J. Castillo, Commissioner, Immigration & Naturalization Service. Keiko Asai v. Attorney General of the United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1979
- United States v. ScottDistrict Court, N.D. Illinois · 1979
- Aero Mayflower Transit Company, Inc. v. Interstate Commerce CommissionCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1983
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