United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee/cross-Appellant v. Liudas Kairys, Defendant-Appellant/cross-Appellee

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• noting that federal courts have “consistently disapproved of the use of laches in denaturalization proceeding” because “laches is not a defense against the sovereign”
• admitting as an ancient document an identification card showing defendant was a Nazi SS guard at Treblinka labor camp in 1943-44, despite the document being found in the Soviet Union’s archive of captured German SS documents
• \Naturalization is illegally procured if any statutory requirement is not met at the time naturalization is granted.\
• “Naturalization is illegally procured if any statutory requirement is not met at the time naturalization is granted.”
• “[B]ecause denaturalization is civil and equitable in nature, due process [is] satisfied by a fair trial before an impartial decisionmaker.”
• “In order for a statute to be considered remedi al it must be one that neither enlarges nor impairs substantive rights but relates to the means and procedures for enforcement of those rights.”

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