Legal Opinion
United States v. Hovsepian
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 30, 2002No. Nos. 99-50041, 01-55247, 99-56922, 00-55320PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
O’SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge.
Among other issues, we must decide whether a federal district court may grant citizenship to resident aliens whose applications were rejected by the Immigration and Naturalization Service in part because of their past terrorist activities.
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In November 1999, during the pendency of various civil and criminal proceedings arising out of challenges to earlier convictions, the district court naturalized Viken Hovsepian and Viken Yacoubian (the “applicants”) despite the fact that the Immigration and Naturalization Service (the “INS”) had previously denied their…
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