U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1943

Regan v. King

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · Decided February 20, 1943

134 F.2d 413; 1943 U.S. App. LEXIS 3580 (Federal Reporter, Second Series)

Counsel

U. S. Webb and Webb, Webb & Olds, all of San Francisco, Cal., for appellant., John J. O’Toole, City Atty., and Walter A. Dold, Chief Deputy City Atty., both of San Francisco, Cal., for appellee., Wayne M. Collins, of San Francisco, Cal. (A. L. Wirin, of Los Angeles, Cal., of counsel), for American Civil Liberties Union, Inc., et al., amici curiae., Harold M. Sawyer and Charles R. Garry, both of San Francisco Cal., and Clore Warne, Charles Katz, Carey McWilliams, Loren Miller, Laurence Weinberg, and A. L. Wirin, all of Los Angeles, Cal., for San Francisco and Los Angeles Chapters of National Lawyers Guild, amici curiae., Walter T. Tsukamoto, of Sacramento, Cal., Saburo Kido, of San Francisco, Cal., and Hugh E. Macbeth, Thos. L. Griffith, Jr., and A. D. Wirin, all of Los Angeles, Cal., for Japanese American Citizens League, amicus curiae.

Opinion of the Court

PER CURIAM.

On the authority of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, § 1, making all persons born in the United States citizens thereof, as interpreted by the Supreme Court of the United States in United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649, 18 S.Ct. 456, 42 L.Ed. 890, and a long line of decisions, including the recent decision in Perkins, Secretary of Labor et al. v. Elg., 307 U.S. 325, 59 S.Ct. 884, 83 L.Ed. 1320, the judgment of dismissal, 49 F.Supp. 222, is affirmed.

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