United States Second Circuit

Defendant's US citizenship was properly revoked. Because he assisted in the persecution of Jews during World War II, he was ineligible to receive his visa per section 13 of the Displaced Persons Act; his subsequent naturalization was therefore illegally procured.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/27/2004
• Published 01/27/2004

Judges

• SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judge., Before:  JACOBS and SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Ramsey Clark, (Lawrence W. Schilling, of counsel), New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellant., Gideon A. Schor, Assistant United States Attorney, (James B. Comey, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, on the brief;  Jeffrey Oestericher, Assistant United States Attorney, of counsel;  Eli Rosenbaum, Director, and Jonathan Drimmer, Trial Attorney, for the United States Department of Justice, Office of Special Investigations, of counsel), New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellee.