Raizner v. City of New York

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that § 321(a)(3) had used “legitimation . . . as a mechanism for establishing paternity”
• noting that under the Jamaican Status of Children Act, the paternity of a child born out of wedlock is legitimated if the father acknowledges paternity
• noting that under the Jamaican Status of Children Act, the paternity of a child born out of wedlock is legitimated if the father acknowledges paternity
• observing that “[a]lthough Jamaica . . . enacted laws that effectively eliminated the legal distinction between children 23 born in wedlock and those born out of wedlock, [it] retained a formal means of legitimating—the marriage of the biological parents”
• discussing the practice of deferring to foreign law to determine whether a child has been legitimated and is therefore entitled to certain immigration benefits
• “a child within the scope of the Jamaican Status of Children Act may be included within the definition of a legitimate or legitimated ‘child’ set forth in section 101(b)(1

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).