WEEDIN, COMMISSIONER OF IMMIGRATION, v. CHIN BOW (1927)

WEEDIN, COMMISSIONER OF IMMIGRATION, v. CHIN BOW
	Term: 1926
Important Dates
	Argued: March 16, 1927
	Decided: June 6, 1927
Outcome
	Reversed
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Oliver Wendell Holmes • James Clark McReynolds • Edward Terry Sanford • Harlan Fiske Stone • George Sutherland • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter

WEEDIN, COMMISSIONER OF IMMIGRATION, v. CHIN BOW is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 6, 1927. The case was argued before the court on March 16, 1927.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Washington Western U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Civil Rights - immigration and naturalization: citizenship
Petitioner: Immigration and Naturalization Service, or Director of, or District Director of, or Immigration and Naturalization Enforcement
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Alien, person subject to a denaturalization proceeding, or one whose citizenship is revoked
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 274 U.S. 657
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: William Howard Taft
Who wrote the majority opinion: William Howard Taft

These data points were accessed from The Supreme Court Database, which also attempts to categorize the ideological direction of the court's ruling in each case. This case's ruling was categorized as conservative.