| Court: | US Supreme Court |
| Facts: | A native-born US citizen's alien wife is unable to immigrate, because she has a dangerous disease. Counter-intuitively, had the husband been a naturalized citizen, instead of native-born, the statute would allow her in. |
| Posture: | Not known in detail |
| Issue: | Is she entitled to the proviso allowing the wives of naturalized citizens, even though the statute technically doesn't apply to wives of native-born citizens? |
| Holding: | No. The statute is what it says. |
| Rule: | The way to fix statutes is to appeal to the legislature. |
| Reasoning: | If we read additional protections into the statute, we're usurping the legislative function. |
| Dicta: | Me: Note that this isn't really a property case... |