Chung Fook v. White

Chung Fook v. White
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued February 26, 1924 Decided April 7, 1924
Full case name	Chung Fook v. Edward White, Commissioner of Immigration for the Port of San Francisco
Citations	264 U.S. 443 (more) 44 S.Ct. 361, 68 L.Ed. 781
Prior history	287 F. 533 (9th Cir.), cert. granted, 262 U.S. 740 (1923).
Holding
Court membership
Chief Justice William H. Taft Associate Justices Joseph McKenna · Oliver W. Holmes, Jr. Willis Van Devanter · James C. McReynolds Louis Brandeis · George Sutherland Pierce Butler · Edward T. Sanford
Case opinions
Majority	Sutherland, joined by Taft, McKenna, Holmes, Van Devanter, McReynolds, Brandeis, Butler, Sanford
Laws applied
Immigration Act of Feb. 5, 1917, ch. 29, § 22, 39 Stat. 891.

Chung Fook v. White, 264 U.S. 443 (1924), was a landmark Supreme Court case. It was significant in that it marked the end of the era of strict plain meaning interpretation of statutes and the beginning of the looser American Rule that the intent of the law was more important than its text.

A man did not have the automatic right to bring his wife to the United States if he married her after he entered there even if that exception was not explicitly mentioned in the law.

External links

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