Legal Opinion
Fedorenko v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 21, 1981No. 79-5602PublishedCited by 484 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Marshall
Section 340 (a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, 66 Stat. 260, as amended, 8 U. S. C. § 1451 (a), requires revocation of United States citizenship that was “illegally procured or . . . procured by concealment of a material fact or by willful misrepresentation.”1 The Government brought this denaturalization action, alleging that petitioner procured his citizenship illegally or by willfully misrepresenting a material fact. The District Court entered judgment for petitioner, but the Court of Appeals reversed and ordered entry of a judgment of denaturalization. We granted…
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