McKenzie v. U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services

How courts have described this case

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• holding complaint failed to present a col-orable federal claim where federal regulation did not create a private cause of action
• explaining the Supreme Court “will rarely recognize an implied private cause of action arising from a mere regulation”
• refusing to consider arguments not raised in the district court or first raised in a reply brief
• “[J]urisdiction under § 1331 exists only where there is a colorable claim arising under federal law.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• first citing 8 C.F.R. §§ 2.1, 310.1(b); and then citing 6 U.S.C. § 271(b)(2)
• “[W]hen Congress ended the jurisdiction of district courts to naturalize aliens, it necessarily ended the jurisdiction to exercise powers derivative of the power to naturalize, including the power ... to modify naturalization documents.”

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