Legal Opinion
Rogers v. Bellei
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 5, 1971No. 24PublishedCited by 93 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Blackmun
Under constitutional challenge here, primarily on Fifth Amendment due process grounds, but also on Fourteenth Amendment grounds, is § 301 (b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of June 27, 1952, 66 Stat. 236, 8 U. S. C. § 1401 (b).
Section 301 (a) of the Act, 8 U. S. C. § 1401 (a), defines those persons who “shall be nationals and citizens of the United States at birth.” Paragraph (7) of § 301 (a) includes in that definition a person born abroad “of parents one of whom is an alien, and the other a citizen of the United States” who has met specified conditions of residence in this country.…
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