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DRAKES v. ASHCROFT

Docket No. 01-4182.

323 F.3d 189 (2003)

Cathyann Martina DRAKES, Petitioner, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General of the United States, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: March 21, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Precht, Ann Arbor, MI, for petitioner.

Michael M. Krauss, Assistant United States Attorney, for James B. Comey, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (Kathy S. Marks, Jeffrey S. Oestericher, Assistant United States Attorneys, on the brief), New York, NY, for respondent.

Before: CALABRESI, SACK, and CUDAHY, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

The question before us is whether the Child Citizenship Act of 2000 ("CCA"), which liberalizes the Immigration and Nationality Act's conditions for the automatic derivative naturalization of alien children of United States-born or naturalized parents, operates retrospectively. See CCA, Pub.L. No. 106-396, §§ 101 & 104 (codified at 8 U.S.C. § 1431). Does it, in other words, make citizens...

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