Legal Opinion
Gorbach v. Reno
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided July 20, 2000No. 98-35723PublishedCited by 80 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKleinfeld, Circuit Judge
KLEINFELD, Circuit Judge:
We must decide whether the power to confer citizenship through the process of naturalization necessarily includes the power to revoke that citizenship. We conclude that it does not.
Facts.
Traditionally new citizens have been naturalized in court. The governing statute used to confer exclusive jurisdiction to naturalize persons as citizens on district courts, territorial courts, and state courts of record.1 This was changed in 1990. Now “[t]he sole authority to naturalize persons as citizens of the United States is conferred upon the Attorney General.”2 Courts may…
2Cases cited23 opinions
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- Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pa. v. CaseySupreme Court of the United States · 1992
- Sosna v. IowaSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Food & Drug Administration v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 2000
- Thomas v. Union Carbide Agricultural Products Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1985
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- Demery v. ArpaioCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2004
- Hector Tito Lujan-Armendariz v. Immigration and Naturalization Service, Mauro Roldan-Santoyo v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2000
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