United States v. Casasola

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “legal custody” in the context of § 1432(a)(3) means sole legal custody
• noting that parents may make decisions about naturalizing their child
• reasoning, in part, that “if [section] 1432(a) were interpreted to allow the naturalization of one parent with joint legal custody to confer automatic derivative citizenship on a child, the statute would not serve the purpose of protecting the custodial, non-citizen parent”
• “[C]ourts do not construe statutes in a manner that would lead to absurd results.”
• “[C]ourts do not construe statutes in a manner that would lead to absurd results.”

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