Legal Opinion
Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Pangilinan
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided September 15, 1988No. 86-1992PublishedCited by 321 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scalia
The respondents, 16 Filipino nationals who served with the United States Armed Forces during World War II, claim they are entitled to apply for and receive American citizenship under a special immigration statute that expired over 40 years ago, §§ 701 to 705 of the Nationality Act of 1940, Ch. 876, 54 Stat. 1137, as amended by the Second War Powers Act of 1942, § 1001, Ch. 199, 56 Stat. 182, 8 U. S. C. §§ 1001 to 1005 (1940 ed., Supp. V) (1940 Act). In the decisions below 1 the Ninth Circuit has, for the third time, ordered naturalization under that expired provision. See Mendoza v. United…
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