FUKUMOTO v. DULLES

No. 13708.

216 F.2d 553 (1954)

Edwin Shigeo FUKUMOTO, Appellant, v. John Foster DULLES, as Secretary of State, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

October 5, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fong, Miho, Choy & Chuck, Honolulu, T. H., A. L. Wirin and Fred Okrand, Los Angeles, Cal., for appellant.

A. William Barlow, U. S. Atty., Louis B. Blissard, Asst. U. S. Atty., Honolulu, Hawaii, Lloyd H. Burke, U. S. Atty., San Francisco, Cal., for appellee.

Before DENMAN, Chief Judge, and BONE and ORR, Circuit Judges.


DENMAN, Chief Judge.

Fukumoto appeals from a judgment in a suit under 8 U.S.C. § 903 [1952 Revision 8 U.S.C.A. § 1503], denying his petition that he be declared a national of the United States, holding he had renounced his American citizenship by obtaining a restoration of his nationality in Japan after he had previously renounced it, and hence expatriated himself within 8 U.S.C. 801(a) [1952 Revision 8 U.S.C.A. § 1481(a)].1

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