Peter Chaunt v. United States

This appeal, which is before us for the second time, is from a judgment entered in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California revoking an order admitting the defendant Peter Chaunt to citizenship. The district court based its judgment upon the grounds that the defendant’s naturalization order had been secured by fraud in that he had falsely concealed material facts in respect to his prior arrests; that he had misrepresented his attachment to the principles of the Constitution and allegiance to the United States, and that he had concealed his communist belief and membership in the Communist Party and in our previous decision we approved the finding of the district court that revocation of defendant’s citizenship was warranted on the ground that he had fraudulently concealed his prior arrests. Accordingly we affirmed the judgment without reaching for consideration the other issues raised on the appeal. 9 Cir., 270 F.2d 179 . On certiorari, the Supreme Court disagreed with our view that the defendant’s concealment of his prior arrests was a sufficient basis for the district court’s judgment. On the contrary, the Supreme Court concluded that the nature of…