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FRIEND v. HOLDER

No. 10-55906.

714 F.3d 1349 (2013)

Horace Gozon FRIEND, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General; Department of Homeland Security; United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed April 30, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas D. Janicik (argued), Steptoe & Johnson LLP, Phoenix, AZ, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Craig A. Defoe (argued), Trial Attorney; Tony West , Assistant Attorney General; J. Max Weintraub , Senior Litigation Counsel, United States Department of Justice, Civil Division, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: MARSHA S. BERZON and PAUL J. WATFORD, Circuit Judges, and JAMES G. CARR, Senior District Judge.

OPINION

WATFORD, Circuit Judge:

The plaintiff in this action, Horace Friend, contends that he is, and has been since birth, a United States citizen. His long quest to obtain official recognition of that status began in 1990, when he first applied for a certificate of citizenship. Mr. Friend claimed to be a citizen under Revised Statutes § 1993, the relevant law in effect at the time of his birth in 1931. Section 1993 provided:

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