United States Ninth Circuit
US v. Flores-Villar, 07-50445
The circuit court rejects challenges under the equal protection component of the Fifth Amendment's due process clause on the basis of age and gender to two former sections of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), which impose a five-year residence requirement, after the age of fourteen, on U.S. citizen fathers, but not on U.S. citizen mothers, before they may transmit citizenship to a child born out of wedlock abroad to a non-citizen.
Appellate Information
- Argued 07/17/2008
- Decided 08/06/2008
- Published 08/06/2008
Judges
- RYMER, Circuit Judge:, Before: CYNTHIA HOLCOMB HALL, PAMELA ANN RYMER, and ANDREW J. KLEINFELD, Circuit Judges.
Court
- United States Ninth Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellees:
- Elizabeth M. Barros, Assistant Federal Public Defender, San Diego, CA, for the defendant-appellant., Karen P. Hewitt, United States Attorney, William A. Hall, Assistant United States Attorney, San Diego, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee.