Holy Trinity Church v. United States
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| Holy Trinity Church v. United States | |||||||||||
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| Submitted January 7, 1892 Argued January 7, 1892 Decided February 29, 1892 |
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| The circuit court did err when it held that the contract hiring an English rector was within the prohibition of the statute which disallowed a "...person, company, partnership, or corporation, in any manner whatsoever to prepay the transportation, or in any way assist or encourage the importation or migration, of any alien or aliens, any foreigner or foreigners, into the United States ... under contract or agreement ... to perform labor or service of any kind in the United States...." | |||||||||||
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| Chief Justice: Melville Fuller Associate Justices: Stephen Johnson Field, Joseph Philo Bradley, John Marshall Harlan, Horace Gray, Samuel Blatchford, Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II, David Josiah Brewer, Henry Billings Brown |
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| Majority by: Brewer Joined by: unanimous |
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| Laws applied | |||||||||||
| U.S. chap. 164, 23 St. p. 332 | |||||||||||
Holy Trinity Church v. United States, 143 U.S. 457 (1892), was a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States regarding a contract between The Church of the Holy Trinity, New York and an English preacher.
Contracts with aliens were forbidden by the U.S. Code, and specifically by "An act to prohibit the importation and migration of foreigners and aliens under contract or agreement to perform labor in the United States, its territories, and the District of Columbia."
The court used the soft plain meaning rule to interpret the statute in this case. Its decision stated that "the circuit court did err when it held that the contract hiring an English rector was within the prohibition of the statute which disallowed a "...person, company, partnership, or corporation, in any manner whatsoever to prepay the transportation, or in any way assist or encourage the importation or migration, of any alien or aliens, any foreigner or foreigners, into the United States ... under contract or agreement ... to perform labor or service of any kind in the United States..."
[edit] External links
- ↑ Full text of the opinion courtesy of Justia.com
- Language and Law on Holy Trinity Church v. U.S. (1892)
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