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  Case-name Holy Trinity Church v US
  Court Supreme Court of the United States
  Decided-date Feb 29, 1892
  Full-case-name Rector, etc, of Holy Trinity Church v United States
  Citations 143 US 457, 12 SCt 511, 36 LEd 226
  Prior-history
  Subsequent-history none
  Holding The circuit court did err when it held that the contract hiring an English rector was within the prohibition of the statute which disallowed a "person, company, partnership, or corporation, in any manner whatsoever to prepay the transportation, or in any way assist or encourage the importation or migration, of any alien or aliens, any foreigner or foreigners, into the United States under contract or agreement to perform labor or service of any kind in the United States"
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  Majority-by Brewer
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  Dissent None