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In the Matter of Z

11 Cited authorities

  1. Schneiderman v. United States

    320 U.S. 118 (1943)   Cited 535 times
    Holding citizenship “should not be taken away without the clearest sort of justification and proof,” and that proof cannot “leave the issue in doubt”

  2. Baumgartner v. United States

    322 U.S. 665 (1944)   Cited 280 times   1 Legal Analyses
    In Baumgartner v. United States, 322 U.S. 665 (1944), the issue was whether or not the findings of the two lower courts satisfied the clear-and-convincing standard of proof necessary to sustain a denaturalization decree.

  3. Nishikawa v. Dulles

    356 U.S. 129 (1958)   Cited 89 times
    Holding that, in the face of congressional silence on the question, proof of an act of expatriation must be by clear and convincing evidence

  4. Perez v. Brownell

    356 U.S. 44 (1958)   Cited 79 times
    In Perez the contention that § 401(e) was penal in character was impliedly rejected by the Court's holding, based on legislative history totally different from that underlying §§ 401(j) and 349(a) (10), that voting in a political election in a foreign state "is regulable by Congress under its power to deal with foreign affairs."

  5. Acheson v. Maenza

    202 F.2d 453 (D.C. Cir. 1953)   Cited 23 times
    In Acheson v. Maenza, 92 U.S.App.D.C. 85, 91, 202 F.2d 453, 459, it might be thought we took a different view when we said that the Government had "failed to sustain the burden of proof" of the two alleged grounds of expatriation there involved.

  6. Stipa v. Dulles

    233 F.2d 551 (3d Cir. 1956)   Cited 11 times

    No. 11651. Argued November 18, 1955. Decided May 16, 1956. Filindo B. Masino, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellant. W. Wilson White, U.S. Atty., Philadelphia, Pa., for appellee. Before BIGGS, KALODNER and HASTIE, Circuit Judges. KALODNER, Circuit Judge. Giovanni Stipa appeals from the judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania dismissing his complaint seeking a judgment declaring him to be a citizen of the United States. The complaint was filed under Section

  7. Jalbuena v. Dulles

    254 F.2d 379 (3d Cir. 1958)   Cited 9 times

    No. 12341. Argued March 17, 1958. Decided April 11, 1958. Samuel Kagle, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellant. Bernard F. Sheran, Asst. U.S. Atty., Philadelphia, Pa. (Harold K. Wood, U.S. Atty., Philadelphia, Pa., on the brief), for appellee. Before GOODRICH, STALEY and HASTIE, Circuit Judges. HASTIE, Circuit Judge. The Department of State having certified that, by operation of Section 401(b) of the Nationality Act of 1940, 54 Stat. 1168, 8 U.S.C. 1946 ed. § 801(b), Joseph Jalbuena had lost his birthright

  8. Rueff v. Brownell

    116 F. Supp. 298 (D.N.J. 1953)   Cited 7 times

    Civ. No. 756-51. November 17, 1953. Riker, Emery Danzig and Alan V. Lowenstein, Newark, N.J., Landis, Taylor Scoll, David E. Scoll, New York City, for plaintiff. William F. Tompkins, Newark, N.J., Edward V. Ryan, Asst. U.S. Atty., Jersey City, for defendant. SMITH, District Judge. This is a civil action under Section 503 of the Nationality Act of 1940, 8 U.S.C.A. § 903. The plaintiff seeks a judicial declaration that she is a citizen and national of the United States. The defendant urges the dismissal

  9. Kenji Kamada v. Dulles

    145 F. Supp. 457 (N.D. Cal. 1956)   Cited 2 times

    Civ. Nos. 32175, 32176, 32274, 32275. August 10, 1956. Mas Yonemura, Oakland, Cal., for plaintiffs. Charles Elmer Collett, San Francisco, Cal., for defendant. WEINFELD, District Judge. These are a series of cases brought respectively by four plaintiffs pursuant to Section 503 of the Nationality Act of 1940, 8 U.S.C.A. § 903, for a judgment declaring each plaintiff to be a national of the United States. Now 8 U.S.C.A. § 1503. All the plaintiffs were born in the United States of Japanese parents who

  10. Section 1251 - Transferred

    8 U.S.C. § 1251   Cited 2,155 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Delineating crimes that make alien deportable

  11. Section 1481 - Loss of nationality by native-born or naturalized citizen; voluntary action; burden of proof; presumptions

    8 U.S.C. § 1481   Cited 253 times   4 Legal Analyses
    Providing that United States nationality may be lost by "voluntarily performing" certain acts "with the intention of relinquishing United States nationality"