Word: chadha
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Dates: during 1983-1983
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...what surprised most observers, especially given the quirky particulars of the case being litigated. The court was ruling on the deportation case of a student from Kenya. In 1975 the House of Representatives had used its legislative veto to reverse a Justice Department ruling that the student, Jagdish Chadha, could stay in the U.S. An appellate court overruled Congress in 1980 and the Supreme Court affirmed that decision last week...
...case was atypical, incidental to the major legal issues at stake and, for some time now, moot to him personally. But San Francisco stereo Salesman Jagdish Rai Chadha, 38, provided the unlikely focal point for last week's Supreme Court decision banishing the legislative veto and altering the balance of power in the U.S. Government. Said a stunned Chadha, after hearing the news in a 7 a.m. phone call from his victorious Washington lawyer: "It's kind of overwhelming...
...case began nine years ago when Chadha found himself the proverbial man without a country. Born in Kenya of Indian parents and holding a British passport, Chadha was trying to return home after six years at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, where he earned an undergraduate degree in business and master's degrees in political science and economics. Kenya refused to take him because they said he was a British subject, he recalls, and Britain told him he would have to wait a year. He wrote to U.S. immigration officials about citizenship, but was again rebuffed. After...
...Chadha found lawyers who would represent him for free in an appeal. He supported himself as a teacher's aide, tennis instructor and stock boy. "The funds were weak," he says, "but the will was strong." He finally got a favorable ruling from the Justice Department, but Congress vetoed Chadha and five others from a list of 340 aliens to be granted permanent resident status. Washington Attorney Alan Morrison, director of the Public Citizen Litigation Group, asked to take over. Chadha agreed, and went to the federal courts. Along the way he married Terry Lorentz, an American high school...
...payment for long years of work, Chadha bought Morrison two bottles of celebratory champagne. But, even with the Supreme Court on his side, Chadha still has to wait for official word on his status from the I.N.S. Says Morrison: "My hope is that he will be a citizen by July...