Boutilier v. Immigration and Naturalization Service (1967), by Marc Stein

This was originally published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1967 ruling in Boutilier v. Immigration and Naturalization Service, which upheld the deportation of Clive Michael Boutilier, a Canadian citizen and U.S. permanent resident classified by the INS as “afflicted with psychopathic personality” based on his homosexuality. First published by OutHistory on May 22, 2017.

Legal Documents

1. Second Circuit Court of Appeals: Boutilier v. Immigration and Naturalization Service, 363 F.2d 488 (1966)

http://openjurist.org/363/f2d/488/boutilier-v-immigration-and-naturalization-service

https://casetext.com/case/boutilier-v-immigration-and-naturalization-service-2

2. U.S. Supreme Court Transcript of Record

A. Record from the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Boutilier v. INS, U.S. Supreme Court, October Term, 1966, No. 440.

B. Blanch Freedman and Robert Brown, Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Boutilier v. INS, U.S. Supreme Court, October Term, 1966, No. 440.

C. Thurgood Marshall, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., Beatrice Rosenberg, and Paul C. Summitt, Memorandum for the Respondent, Boutilier v. INS, U.S. Supreme Court, October Term, 1966, No. 440.

D. Blanch Freedman and Robert Brown (with David M. Freedman), Brief for Petitioner, Boutilier v. INS, U.S. Supreme Court, October Term, 1966, No. 440.

E. Gilbert M. Cantor, Brief of the Homosexual Law Reform Society of America, Amicus Curiae, Boutilier v. INS, U.S. Supreme Court, October Term, 1966, No. 440.

F. David Carliner, Burt Neuborne, Nanette Dembitz, and Alan H. Levine, Brief of American Civil Liberties Union and New York Civil Liberties Union, Amici Curiae, Boutilier v. INS, U.S. Supreme Court, October Term, 1966, No. 440.

G. Thurgood Marshall, Fred M. Vinson, Mr., Philip R. Monahan, Brief for Respondent, Boutilier v. INS, U.S. Supreme Court, October Term, 1966, No. 440.

H. Blanch Freedman and Robert Brown (with David M. Freedman), Reply Brief for Petitioner, Boutilier v. INS, U.S. Supreme Court, October Term, 1966, No. 440.

I. Letter, Thurgood Marshall to John F. Davis, March 15, 1967, Boutilier v. INS, U.S. Supreme Court, October Term, 1966, No. 440.

3. U.S. Supreme Court Oral Arguments

https://www.oyez.org/cases/1966/440

4. Boutilier v. Immigration and Naturalization Service, 387 U.S. 118 (1967)

http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/387/118.html

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/387/118/case.html

https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/387/118