Case Categories: Immigrants, Aliens, Foreigners, First Amendment Rights of

• Abrams v. United States (1919)

  In Abrams v. United States (1919) the Supreme Court upheld convictions of several people for distributing leaflets advocating their radical political views. In...

• American Academy of Religion v. Chertoff (S.D.N.Y) (2006)

  In American Academy of Religion v. Chertoff, a New York federal court ordered the government to issue a visa to Tariq Ramadan, a scholar of Islam, or to explain...

• Bridges v. Wixon (1945)

  In Bridges v. Wixon (1945), the Supreme Court reversed a 9th Circuit ruling denying a writ to Harry Bridges. The Court ruled that the U.S. could not deport...

• Carlson v. Landon (1952)

  The arrest and detention of alien residents under the Internal Security Act of 1950, also known as the McCarran Act, led to a challenge that made it to the...

• Girouard v. United States (1946)

  In Girouard v. United States, the Supreme Court held that citizenship applicants do not have to swear they will bear arms if they have religious objections...

• Harisiades v. Shaughnessy (1952)

  Harisiades v. Shaughnessy upheld a provision of the Alien Registration Act of 1940, requiring deportation of resident aliens who advocate the unlawful overthrow...

• International Refugee Assistance Project v. Trump (4th Cir.) (2017)

  President Trump signed executive orders suspending immigration from predominantly predominately Muslim nations. Courts said the order violated the First...

• Kimm v. Rosenberg (1960)

  The Court decision in Kimm v. Rosenberg (1960 focused chiefly on the self-incrimination provision of the Fifth Amendment, but it also had implications for First...

• Kleindienst v. Mandel (1972)

  In Kleindienst v. Mandel (1972), the Court held that First Amendment protections did not extend to non-citizens, even if invited to the country for academic...

• United States ex rel. Turner v. Williams (1904)

  In 1904, the Supreme Court upheld the planned deportation of anarchist and alien John Turner under the Anarchist Exclusion Act. In Turner v. Williams, the Court...

• United States v. Macintosh (1931)

  In 1931, the Supreme Court agreed that a Canadian chaplain could be denied citizenship based on his refusal to pledge to take up arms in war. In United States v...

• United States v. Schwimmer (1929)

  The Supreme Court in 1929 upheld the denial of citizenship to 52-year-old Rosika Schwimmer based on her answer that she would not take up arms personally to...