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WAUCHOPE v. U.S. DEPT. OF STATE

No. C-90-0897 RFP.

756 F.Supp. 1277 (1991)

Valerie Isabelle WAUCHOPE, Plaintiff, v. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE and Secretary of State, James Baker, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. California.

January 31, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Susana Igleheart, Thomas P. Byrne, James M. Byrne, Byrne, Igleheart, Kerosky & Byrne, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff.

Mark C. Walters, Office of Immigration Litigation, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., Susan L. Kamlet, Asst. U.S. Atty., U.S. Attys. Office, San Francisco, Cal., for defendants.

ORDER

PECKHAM, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

Prior to 1934, the citizenship laws of the United States had this effect:

[S]uppose that a United States sister and brother both marry abroad, as many do, and that each has a family of children by marriage. The brother, in either peace or war time, may pick up his children and bring the family into the United States as American citizens. The sister...

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