MILLER v. CHRISTOPHER

No. 94-5160.

96 F.3d 1467 (1996)

Lorelyn Peñero MILLER, Appellant, v. Warren CHRISTOPHER, Secretary of State, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided October 8, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald R. Patterson, Tyler, TX, argued the cause, and filed the briefs, for appellant.

John O. Birch, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Eric H. Holder, Jr., United States Attorney, and R. Craig Lawrence, Assistant United States Attorney, were on the brief, argued the cause, for appellee. John D. Bates and Douglas A. Wickham, Assistant United States Attorneys, Washington, DC, entered appearances, for appellee.

Before WALD and HENDERSON, Circuit Judges, and BUCKLEY, Senior Circuit Judge.


Opinion for the court filed by Senior Circuit Judge BUCKLEY.

Separate opinion concurring in the judgment filed by Circuit Judge WALD.

BUCKLEY, Senior Circuit Judge:

Lorelyn Peñero Miller, a nonresident alien, appeals the dismissal of her complaint for lack of Article III standing and challenges the constitutionality, on equal protection grounds, of a statute governing the citizenship of an illegitimate child born abroad of an American father and...

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