Supreme Court· 10/15/1951

Harisiades v. Shaughnessy

Citations

342 U.S. 580
72 S. Ct. 512
96 L. Ed. 2d 586
1952 U.S. LEXIS 2345

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holding that “[d]eportation, however severe its consequences, has been consistently classified as a civil rather than a criminal procedure”
concluding that immigrants stand “on an equal footing with citizens” under the Constitution with respect to protection of personal liberty
concluding that immigrants stand “on an equal footing with citizens” under the Constitution with respect to protection of personal liberty
holding that the State Department’s designation of the plaintiff as inadmissible under Section 7031(c), codified in a statutory note to 8 U.S.C. § 1182, was nonreviewable
holding that administrative expediency must give way to protection of fundamental rights
explaining that “the conduct of foreign relations ... [is] so exclusively entrusted to the political branches of government as to be largely immune from judicial inquiry or interference”

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Judges: Jackson, Frankfurter, Douglas, Clark

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