Ball v. Department of State

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA JOHN DONALD BALL, III, Plaintiff, v. Case No. 20-cv-02222 (CRC) DEPARTMENT OF STATE, et al., Defendants. MEMORANDUM OPINION Chivalry may not be dead, but it is surely missing in this case. In the early aughts, Plaintiff John Donald Ball III submitted a sworn affidavit in support of a petition to the State Department to confer citizenship to Miranda Onischenko, who was born in Russia to a non- citizen mother. In the affidavit, Ball attested that he was a U.S. citizen and that Ms. Onischenko was his daughter. The State Department granted…