Legal Opinion
Gorbach v. Reno
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 4, 1999No. 98-35723PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by Judge RYMER; Dissent by Judge KLEINFELD.
RYMER, Circuit Judge:
The question before us is whether the Attorney General, who has the exclusive power to naturalize, has the statutory authority to reopen and revoke her orders of naturalization on grounds of fraud, material misrepresentation or ineligibility for naturalization subject to de novo judicial review by an Article III court.
The Immigration Act of 1990, § 401(a), 8 U.S.C. § 1421(a), transferred the sole authority to naturalize from state courts of record and federal district courts to the Attorney General, without limiting the…
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