Wolf v. Brownell

253 F.2d 141 Hazel Anna WOLF, Appellant, v. Herbert BROWNELL, Jr., Attorney General of the United States, and John P. Boyd, District Director, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Appellees. No. 15699. United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit. Nov. 27, 1957, Rehearing Denied Feb. 28, 1958. John Caughlan, Jay G. Sykes, Seattle, Wash., for appellant. Charles P. Moriarty, U.S. Atty., Richard F. Broz, Asst. U.S. Atty., Seattle, Wash., Charles Gordon, Regional Counsel, U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, St. Paul, Minn., for appellees. Before DENMAN, BONE and BARNES, Circuit Judges. DENMAN, Circuit Judge. 1 Appellant's complaint sought a declaratory judgment that she is a citizen of the United States. She also sought an order restraining her deportation to Canada, and applied for a writ of habeas corpus. She appeals from the district court's judgment holding that she is not a citizen of the United States and setting aside a temporary restraining order and dismissing the application for the writ of habeas corpus. 2 Deportation proceedings were begun against this appellant in 1949. The Hearing Officer found that she was an alien who had been a member of the Communist…