Legal Opinion
Leng May Ma v. Bruce G. Barber, District Director Immigration and Naturalization Service, San Francisco District
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided February 5, 1957No. 14252_1PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HEALY, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from the denial by the court below of a petition for the writ of habeas corpus seeking a stay of deportation.
Petitioner is a native of China. She claimed acquisition of United States citizenship at birth on the statutory ground that her father was a United States citizen. She arrived in this country in 1951, and was by the Immigration Service accorded hearings on her claim but failed to establish her identity as a United States national to the satisfaction of the Service. Thereupon she was ordered to surrender for deportation to China. She pér titioned…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Cahill v. New York, New Haven & Hartford RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1955
- Jew Sing v. Bruce G. Barber, District Director, Immigration and Naturalization Service, San Francisco DistrictCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1954
3Cited by10 opinions
- Leng May Ma v. BarberSupreme Court of the United States · 1958
- Wong Hing Goon v. BrownellCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1959
- United States Ex Rel. Paktorovics v. MurffDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1957
- Leng May Ma v. BarberSupreme Court of the United States · 1958
- United States ex rel. Lue Chow Yee v. ShaughnessyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1957
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