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63 F.2d 641

Docket No. 6963.

Murakami v. Burnett

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

Decided Feb. 20, 1933.

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1933-02-20

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently March 1948

1 federal appellate ·

2 counsel of record

Relies on United States v. Ju Toy · United States ex rel. Scimeca v. Husband

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Opinion by (per_curiam) · Decided 1933-02-20

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¶1*642J. Edward Keating and Theodore E. Bowen, both of Los Angeles, for appellant.

¶2Samnel W. McNabb, U. S. Atty., and Frank M. Chichester, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Los Angeles, Cal. (Trent Doser, of Los Angeles, Cal., U. S. Immigration Service, on the brief), for appellee.

¶3Before WILBUR, SAWTELLE, and MACK, Circuit Judges.

¶4PER CURIAM.

¶51. In exclusion, as distinguished from deportation proceedings, the law is settled that there is no absolute right to a judicial determination of a claim to citizenship. United States v. Ju Toy, 198 U. S. 253, 25 S. Ct. 644, 49 L. Ed. 1040; United States ex rel. Scimeca v. Husband (C. C. A. 2, 1925) 6 F.(2d) 957.

¶62. The question' for determination was not whether Tsutako Murakami is a citizen of the United States, but whether the applicant for admission was in fact Tsutako Murakami. It is unnecessary to enumerate the diserepanties between the testimony of appellant and that of her alleged father before the Board of Special Inquiry; it suffices to say that in our judgment they were as to material matters hearing on the family. Appellant, age 17 years'at the time of her arrival, claims American citizenship by birth in this country. She came as a steerage passenger; her alleged father as a second-class passenger on the saíne vessel. Their testimony differed materially, among other things, as to the name and age of her alleged younger sister; there was some difference even after the alleged father had passed her a note, which she destroyed and which the' Board could well believe was intended to cause her to change her testimony.

¶7The Board was justified on the record in believing that both she and the alleged father had testified falsely, and that she was not his daughter.

¶8Judgment dismissing the writ of habeas corpus affirmed.

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