United States Supreme Court

In a case in which parents of a child born in Jerusalem sought to have the child's place of birth recorded in his passport as "Israel" as allowed by a federal statute but prohibited by State Department policy, dismissal of the case on grounds that it presented a nonjusticiable political question is vacated, where: 1) resolution of the claim would not require the judiciary to define U.S. policy toward the status of Jerusalem, but rather required the courts to determine only whether the plaintiff could vindicate his statutory right to choose to have Israel recorded as his place of birth on his passport; 2) the only real question for the courts was whether the statute was unconstitutional; and 3) there was not a lack of judicially discoverable and manageable standards for resolving the question.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/26/2012
• Published 03/26/2012

Judges

• Roberts

Court

• United States Supreme Court

Counsel