Johann Breyer v. Doris Meissner, U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service

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• finding an equal protection violation in a derivative citizenship statute, and providing that, pursuant to additional findings by the District Court, the noncitizen petitioner would “be entitled to American citizenship relating back to his birth”
• applying heightened scrutiny to § 1993 of the Revised Statutes of 15 1874, a predecessor to § 1409, because it “created a gender classification with 16 respect to [petitioner’s] mother’s ability to pass her citizenship to her foreign‐ 17 born child at his birth”
• applying heightened scrutiny to § 1993 of the Revised Statutes of 15 1874, a predecessor to § 1409, because it “created a gender classification with 16 respect to [petitioner’s] mother’s ability to pass her citizenship to her foreign‐ 17 born child at his birth”

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