Ex parte Carlson
Decision Date | 10 November 1950 |
Docket Number | 12503,12492,12505.,No. 12491,12491 |
Citation | 94 F. Supp. 18 |
Parties | Ex parte CARLSON. Ex parte STEVENSON. Ex parte CARLISLE. Ex parte HYUN. |
Court | U.S. District Court — Southern District of California |
Margolis & McTernan, by John W. Porter, Los Angeles, Cal., for petitioner Frank Carlson.
Rose S. Rosenberg, Los Angeles, Cal., for petitioner Miriam Christine Stevenson.
Stanley Fleishman, Hollywood, Cal., for petitioner Harry Carlisle.
Milton S. Tyre, Los Angeles, Cal., for petitioner David Hyun.
A. L. Wirin, Los Angeles, Cal., amicus curiae.
Ernest A. Tolin, U. S. Atty., Walter S. Binns, Chief Asst. U. S. Atty., Ray H. Kinnison, Asst. U. S. Atty., Howard L. Field, District Adjudication Officer, U. S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, Department of Justice, Los Angeles, Cal., for respondent.
In the above entitled habeas corpus proceedings which were initiated to secure the release on bail of several aliens held without bail by the immigration authorities pending final determination of their cases, an order to show cause was issued and a return thereto filed by the Attorney General. The petitioners, through oral argument and by means of briefs presented to the court, contend that the return to the order to show cause is insufficient and that they are entitled to their discharge on the state of the record as a matter of law. The return contained a copy of the warrant of arrest wherein the petitioners were retained in custody under authority of Section 156, Title 8 U.S.C.A., as amended by the Internal Security Act of 1950 (U.S. Congressional Service pp. 3740-3762). Said section as amended in part reads as follows: "* * * Pending final determination of the deportability of any alien taken into custody under warrant of the Attorney General, such alien may, in the discretion of the Attorney General (1) be continued in custody; or (2) be released under bond in the amount of not less than $500, with security approved by the Attorney General; or (3) be released on conditional parole. * * *" The government contends that this provision of the law as amended gives the Attorney General absolute discretion in the matter of bail, and that this court has no jurisdiction to review the exercise of this discretion.
The court cannot accept the contention of either of the parties. I am of the opinion that the amendments, insofar as material to this matter, were a legislative adoption of clarifying language read into the original Section 156 by certain rulings of the Second Circuit, and not a change in the law giving the Attorney General absolute discretion. In U. S. ex rel. Zapp v. District Director, etc., 2 Cir., 120 F.2d 762, reading at page 765 the following language is used: "The natural interpretation of the language used, that the alien `may be released under a bond,' would indicate that the release is discretionary with the Attorney General; * * *."
This same view of the discretionary power of the Attorney General was reiterated and more clearly defined in U. S. ex rel. Potash v. District Director, etc., 2 Cir., 169 F.2d 747, 751, wherein the court stated:
The language of these decisions together with a careful comparison of the language of the respective statutes indicates that no such grant of power as is contended for by the government was given by the amendments to 8 U.S.C.A. § 156 contained in the new Internal Security Act of 1950. It would have been a comparatively simple matter for Congress to indicate an intent to give such power to the Attorney General. There is nothing in the legislative history, however, to show that Congress did intend such exclusive right. The Zapp case established that the admission to bail was discretionary with the Attorney General. The Potash case held that such discretion is not an unbridled one.
It is equally clear since the Potash case, supra, that one who claims an abuse of such discretion has the burden of proving abuse by clear and convincing evidence. This is clearly set forth in 169 F.2d at page 751: (Emphasis...
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