Historical Legal Statement: Statement in Opposition to the Application for the Writ of Habeas Corpus of Wong Kim Ark

United States v. Wong Kim Ark

Historical Legal Statement: Statement in Opposition to the Application for the Writ of Habeas Corpus of Wong Kim Ark

11/11/1895

Historical Legal Statement

The National Archives Catalog features an 1895 statement by Northern California attorney Henry S. Foote on California-born Wong Kim Ark’s appeal for a writ of habeas corpus and his subsequent discharge from prison after being incarcerated for reentering the United States after the passing of the Chinese Exclusion Act. Foote provides a perspective on Ark’s appeal for the writ of habeas corpus, stating that Ark should be returned to China under the Chinese Exclusion Act.

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National Archives Catalog (Contributor: U.S. District Court for the Southern - San Francisco - Division of the Northern District of California)

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