Supreme Court of the United States, 1955

Gonzales v. Landon

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided December 12, 1955

350 U.S. 920; 76 S. Ct. 210; 100 L. Ed. 806; 1955 U.S. LEXIS 3 (United States Reports)

Counsel

A. L. Wirin argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the brief was Fred Okrand. Oscar H. Davis argued the cause for respondents. With him on the brief were Solicitor General Sobeloff, Assistant Attorney General Olney, Beatrice Rosenberg and J. F. Bishop. Briefs of amici curiae were filed by John W. Willis for Mendoza-Martinez, and by Osmond K. Fraenkel and Loren Miller for the American Civil Liberties Union.

Cases that cite this one

35 later published cases cite this decision. The 25 that cite it most often are listed here.

Nishikawa v. Dulles (Supreme Court of the United States 1958)
Frank Garlasco v. John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State of the United States of America (2d Cir. 1957)
Fletes-Mora v. Rogers (United States District Court for the Southern District of California 1958)
Wilson v. Workman (10th Cir. 2009)
Manuel Gonzalez-Jasso v. William P. Rogers, Attorney General of the United States (D.C. Cir. 1959)
Reyes v. Neelly (5th Cir. 1959)
Reyes ex rel. Martinez v. Neeley (5th Cir. 1959)
Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez (Supreme Court of the United States 1963)
J (Board of Immigration Appeals 1959)
United States v. Minker (Supreme Court of the United States 1956)
United States v. Fatico (District Court, E.D. New York 1978)
Collins Securities Corporation and Timothy Collins v. Securities and Exchange Commission (D.C. Cir. 1977)
United States ex rel. Marks v. Esperdy (District Court, S.D. New York 1962)
Joseph Sherman v. James A. Hamilton, Jr., District Director, Immigration and Naturalization Service (1st Cir. 1961)
P-R (Board of Immigration Appeals 1960)
Guerrieri v. Hester (District Court, District of Columbia 1960)
John Foster Dulles, as Secretary of State of the United States v. Sukejiro Katamoto (9th Cir. 1958)
Lee Hon Lung v. John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State of the United States of America (9th Cir. 1958)
Bean v. Barber (United States District Court for the Northern District of California 1958)
John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State v. Susanne Richter (D.C. Cir. 1957)
United States v. Pellegrino (District Court, S.D. New York 1957)
Woodby v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (Supreme Court of the United States 1966)
G (Board of Immigration Appeals 1959)
Perez v. Brownell (Supreme Court of the United States 1958)
Mitsugi Nishikawa v. John Foster Dulles, as Secretary of State (9th Cir. 1956)

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Opinion of the Court

*920Cer-tiorari, 349 U. S. 943, to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Argued December 7-8, 1955. Decided December 12, 1955.

Per Curiam:

The Court is of the view that the standard of proof required in denaturalization cases (see Schneiderman v. United States, 320 U. S. 118; Baumgartner v. United States, 322 U. S. 665) is applicable to expatriation cases arising under § 401 (j) of the Nationality Act of 1940, 54 Stat. 1137, as amended, and has not been satisfied in this case. Accordingly the judgment below is reversed without reaching the constitutional questions that have been presented.

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