Simons v. United States

LASKER, District Judge.

The motions here raise novel questions of law in an unusual factual setting. The plaintiff alleges that she and her late, divorced husband obtained their naturalization decrees in this court by fraud. She seeks to have both decrees set aside. The motivation for such an unusual action is apparent from the papers. Despite the observation of Mr. Justice Black that “[n]ot only is United States citizenship a ‘high privilege,’ it is a priceless treasure,” Johnson v. Eisentrager, 339 U.S. 763, 791, 70 S.Ct. 936, 950, 94 L.Ed. 1255 (dissenting) (1950), it seems that the…