Legal Opinion
Porter v. Quarantillo
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided July 8, 2013No. Docket 13-119-cvPublishedCited by 90 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BARRINGTON D. PARKER, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiff-Appellant Randolph Porter, a naturalized United States citizen, sought a declaratory judgment from the district court (E.D.N.Y., Irizarry, J.) that he was entitled to derivative United States citizenship as of his birth. Porter’s brother was killed on Pan Am Flight 103 by Libyan terrorists in December 1988, and if Porter were able to prove derivative citizenship, he ostensibly would be entitled to compensation from a settlement fund established by the governments of Libya and the United States. His argument below for derivative citizenship rested…
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