Perez v. Brownell
Significance, Congress Can Seek To Limit "embarrassing" Actions, Fourteenth Amendment Guarantee In Jeopardy
Petitioner
Clemente Martinez Perez
Respondent
Herbert Brownell, Jr.
Petitioner's Claim
That Congress exceeded its authority in enacting certain sections of the Nationality Act of 1940, which were used to deny petitioner his U.S. citizenship.
Chief Lawyer for Petitioner
Charles A. Horsky
Chief Lawyers for Respondent
Oscar H. Davis; J. Lee Rankin, U.S. Solicitor General
Justices for the Court
William J. Brennan, Jr., Harold Burton, Tom C. Clark, Felix Frankfurter (writing for the Court), John Marshall Harlan II,
Justices Dissenting
Hugo Lafayette Black, William O. Douglas, Earl Warren, Charles Evans Whittaker
Place
Washington, D.C.
Date of Decision
31 March 1958
Decision
Petitioner's claim denied.
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- Bailey v. Alabama, 219 U.S. 219 (1911).
- United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp., 299 U.S. 304 (1936).
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