Immigration Law

Resource 5 . 2

26 minutes

Fiallo ex rel. Rodriguez v. Bell

Peter Spiro

Questions to consider: How is Fiallo different from the foundational plenary power cases, if at all? How did the Court apply equal protection doctrine in the decision? How might Fiallo apply to explicitly racial classifications in the context of immigration law? How should we think of Justice Marshall’s “closeness” metric for the preference scheme?

Supreme Court of the United States

430 U.S. 787, 52 L. Ed. 2d 50, 97 S. Ct. 1473, 1977 U.S. LEXIS 78, SCDB 1976-092

No. 75-6297

1977-04-26

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