Scavone v. Acheson

IRVING R. KAUFMAN, District Judge.

The plaintiff brings this action to declare that she is and has been since her birth a citizen or national of the United States. There are other prayers for relief in the complaint but by pre-trial order they have been abandoned, and a declaratory judgment is sought only with respect to prayer No. 1. Therefore I need not concern myself with the other prayers for relief.

The issue in this case, and there is only really one issue in the case, is whether the plaintiff voted under duress in a local Italian election on March 31, 1946. If she did, then she has not…