Legal Opinion
Anderson v. Holder
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided March 12, 2012No. 07-74042, 08-73946, 10-16491PublishedCited by 104 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:
This case requires us to apply a 1952 statute to circumstances far removed from those that the enacting Congress imagined. Gary Anderson, born in England to an American serviceman father and an English mother, is a citizen of the United States if and only if his “paternity ... [was] established while [he was] under the age of twenty-one years by legitimation.” 8 U.S.C. § 1409(a) (1952) (“Former § 1409(a)”). When Congress enacted this law, it believed that “[a]s a general proposition, legitimation is accomplished by the marriage of the parents with…
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