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SAVORGNAN v. UNITED STATES

No. 48.

338 U.S. 491 (1950)

SAVORGNAN v. UNITED STATES ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 9, 1950.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Suel O. Arnold and Carl A. Flom argued the cause and filed a brief for petitioner.

Oscar H. Davis argued the cause for respondents. With him on the brief were Solicitor General Perlman, Assistant Attorney General Campbell, Robert S. Erdahl and Philip R. Monahan.

Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed by Walbridge S. Taft for Margaret Trimble Revedin, and by Jack Wasserman and Gaspare Cusumano for the Association of Immigration and Nationality Lawyers.

MR. JUSTICE BURTON delivered the opinion of the Court.

The question is whether, under the special circumstances of this case, a native-born American citizen who became an Italian citizen in 1940, and lived in Italy with her Italian husband from 1941 to 1945, nevertheless retained her American citizenship. For the reasons hereinafter stated, we hold that she did not. The controlling statutes are § 2 of the Citizenship Act of 1907,1

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