Legal Opinion
United States v. Mendoza
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 10, 1984No. 82-849PublishedCited by 709 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Rehnquist
In 1978 respondent Sergio Mendoza, a Filipino national, filed a petition for naturalization under a statute which by its terms had expired 32 years earlier. Respondent’s claim for naturalization was based on the assertion that the Government’s administration of the Nationality Act denied him due process of law. Neither the District Court nor the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ever reached the merits of his claim, because they held that the Government was collaterally estopped from litigating that constitutional issue in view of an earlier decision against the Government in a case…
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