Legal Opinion
William Anthony Richards v. Secretary of State, Department of State, United States of America
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided February 4, 1985No. 82-5991PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:
William Anthony Richards was issued a Certificate of Loss of Nationality by the Department of State (“the Department”) on June 22, 1978. The Department found that he had expatriated himself on February 23, 1971, when he became a citizen of Canada and, in doing so, took an oath of allegiance to the Queen of England and expressly renounced allegiance to any other sovereign. Richards brought this suit seeking a declaration that the procedures the Department used in issuing the Certificate violated the due process, equal protection, and bill of attainder clauses of the…
2Cases cited11 opinions
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- Vance v. TerrazasSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
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