Shaughnessy v. United States Ex Rel. Mezei

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1953-03-16

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Mr. Justice Clark delivered the opinion of the Court. This case concerns an alien immigrant permanently excluded from the United States on security grounds but stranded in his temporary haven on Ellis Island because other countries will not take him back. The issue is whether the Attorney General’s continued exclusion of respondent without a hearing amounts to an unlawful detention, so that courts may admit…

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