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SESSIONS v. MORALES-SANTANA

No. 15-1191.

137 S.Ct. 1678 (2017)

582 U.S. 47

Jefferson B. SESSIONS, III, Attorney General, Petitioner, v. Luis Ramón MORALES-SANTANA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 12, 2017.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edwin S. Kneedler , Washington, DC, for Petitioner.

Stephen A. Broome , Los Angeles, CA, for Respondent.

Ian Heath Gershengorn , Acting Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Petitioner.

Ian Heath Gershengorn , Acting Solicitor General, Benjamin C. Mizer , Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Edwin S. Kneedler , Deputy Solicitor General, Sarah E. Harrington , Assistant to the Solicitor General, Donald E. Keener , Andrew C. MacLachlan , Attorneys, Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Petitioner.

Kathleen M. Sullivan , Todd Anten , Justin T. Reinheimer , Ellyde R. Thompson , Quinn Emanuel Urquhart, & Sullivan, New York, NY, Stephen A. Broome , Quinn Emanuel Urquhart, & Sullivan, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for Respondent.

This case concerns a gender-based differential in the law governing acquisition of U.S. citizenship by a child born abroad, when one parent is a U.S. citizen, the other, a citizen of another nation. The main rule appears in 8 U.S.C. § 1401(a)(7...

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