Legal Opinion
Breyer v. Meissner
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided August 27, 1998No. Civil Action 97-6515PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
YOHN, District Judge.
Plaintiff Johann Breyer was denaturalized by order of this court in 1993, as a consequence of his service during World War II in the SS Totenkopf (Death’s Head) Battalion as an armed guard at the Buchenwald and Auschwitz concentration camps. Breyer now seeks a declaratory judgment that he is entitled to derivative United States citizenship because his mother was born in the United States. Defendant has moved to dismiss under Rule 12(b)(6) for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted. For the reasons set forth below, I will grant…
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3Cited by4 opinions
- Johann Breyer v. Doris Meissner, U.S. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2000
- Johann Breyer v. John Ashcroft, U.S. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2003
- Breyer v. Atty Gen USACourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2003
- Breyer v. MeissnerCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2000