Montana v. Kennedy

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• interpreting a statute granting citizen ship status to foreign-born “children of persons who now are, or have been citizens of the United States” (internal quotation marks omitted; emphasis deleted)
• interpreting a statute granting citizenship status to foreign-born “children of persons who now are, or have been, citizens of the United States” (internal quotation marks omitted; emphasis added and deleted)
• interpreting the word \now\ in a reenactment of an earlier act to refer to the initial date of enactment
• interpreting the word “now” in a reenactment of an earlier act to refer to the initial date of enactment
• federal immigration law in force at time of petitioner’s birth applied, absent express retroactivity in subsequent legislative alterations
• act of American Consular agent in refusing to allow pregnant mother to leave Italy did not comprise sufficient misconduct to justify estoppel of United States from relying on child’s foreign birth

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).