Legal Opinion
Tuaua v. United States of America
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided June 26, 2013No. Civil Action No. 2012-1143PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
RICHARD J. LEON, District Judge.
Plaintiffs are five non-citizen U.S. nationals born in American Samoa and the Samoan Federation of America, a nonprofit organization serving the Samoan com munity in Los Angeles. Compl. ¶¶ 10-15. 1 They seek declaratory and injunctive relief against defendants, the United States and the related parties that execute its citizenship laws. Id. ¶¶ 16-19. 2 They assert that the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause extends to American Samoa and that people born in American Samoa are therefore U.S. citizens at birth. Id. at 25-26. Plaintiffs…
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