DRAKE v. OBAMA

Nos. 09-56827, 10-55084.

664 F.3d 774 (2011)

Wiley S. DRAKE; Markham Robinson, Plaintiffs-Appellants, and Ambassador Alan Keyes, Ph.D.; Captain Pamela Barnett; Lieutenant Colonel Richard Norton Bauerbach; Captain Robin D. Biron; Colonel John D. Blair; Mr. David L. Bosley; Ms. Loretta G. Bosley; Captain Harry G. Butler; Representative Glenn Casada, Tennessee; Jennifer Leah Clark; Representative Timothy Comerford, New Hampshire; Charles Crusemire; Representative Cynthia Davis, Missouri; Chief Warrant Officer Thomas S. Davidson; Matthew Michael Edwards; Lieutenant Jason Freese; Mr. Kurt C. Fuqua; Officer Clint Grimes; Julliett Ireland; D. Andrew Johnson; Israel D. Jones; State Representative Timothy Jones, Esq., Missouri; Commander David Fullmer Laroque; Gail Lightfoot; MIL Officer Lita M. Lott, U.S. Army; Major David Grant Mosby; MSGT Steven Kay Neuenschwander; State Representative Frank Niceley, Tennessee; Retired Senator Jerry O'Neil, Montana; SFC E7 Robert Lee Perry; Colonel Harry Riley; Sergeant Jeffrey Wayne Rosner; MSGT Jeffrey Schwilk; Captain David Smithey; Lieutenant Commander John Bruce Steidel; Commander Douglas Earl Stoeppelwerth; Thomas J. Taylor; Representative Eric Swafford, Tennessee; Captain Neil B. Turner; Richard E. Venable; LCDR Jeff Graham Winthrope; Lieutenant Colonel Mark Wriggle, Plaintiffs, v. Barack Hussein OBAMA; Michelle L.R. Obama; Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State; Robert M. Gates, Secretary of Defense; Joseph R. Biden, Vice President and President of the Senate, Defendants-Appellees. Pamela Barnett, Captain; Alan Keyes, Ph.D., Ambassador; Richard Norton Bauerbach, Lieutenant Colonel; Robin D. Biron, Captain; John D. Blair, Colonel; David L. Bosley, Lt. Col.; Loretta G. Bosley; Harry G. Butler, Captain; Glenn Casada, Representative, Tennessee; Jennifer Leah Clark; Timothy Comerford, Representative, New Hampshire; Charles Crusemire; Cynthia Davis, Representative, Missouri; Thomas S. Davidson, Chief Warrant Officer; Matthew Michael Edwards; Jason Freese, Lieutenant; Kurt C. Fuqua, Mr.; Clint Grimes, Officer; Julliett Ireland; D. Andrew Johnson; Israel D. Jones; Timothy Jones, State Representative; David Fullmer Laroque, Commander; Gail Lightfoot; Lita M. Lott, MIL Officer, U.S. Army; David Grant Mosby, Major; Steven Kay Neuenschwander, MSGT; Frank Niceley, State Representative, Tennessee; Robert Lee Perry, SFC E7; Harry Riley, Colonel; Jeffrey Wayne Rosner, Sergeant; David Smithey, Captain; John Bruce Steidel, Lieutenant Commander; Douglas Earl Stoeppelwerth, Commander; Eric Swafford, Representative, Tennessee; Neil B. Turner, Captain; Richard E. Venable; Jeff Graham Winthrope, LCDR; Mark Wriggle, Lieutenant Colonel, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Barack Hussein OBAMA; Michelle L.R. Obama; Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State; Robert M. Gates, Secretary of Defense; Joseph R. Biden, Vice President and President of the Senate, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed December 22, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary G. Kreep , Ramona, CA, and Orly Taitz , Rancho Santa Margarita , CA, for the plaintiffs-appellants.

David A. DeJute and Roger E. West , Assistant United States Attorneys, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendants-appellees.

Before: HARRY PREGERSON, RAYMOND C. FISHER, and MARSHA S. BERZON, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

PREGERSON, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs-Appellants contend that Barack Obama is constitutionally ineligible to be President of the United States. United States District Court Judge David O. Carter dismissed Plaintiffs' constitutional claims, as well as their claims for declaratory and injunctive relief, for lack of standing. We affirm the dismissal for lack of standing, albeit on somewhat different reasoning...

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