TINEO v. ATTY. GEN. U.S. OF AMERICA

No. 16-1461.

937 F.3d 200 (2019)

Jose Francisco TINEO aka Luis Alberto Padilla, aka Jose Sanchez, Petitioner v. ATTORNEY GENERAL UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Opinion Filed: September 4, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles N. Curcio [ARGUED], Curcio Law Firm, 3547 Alpine Avenue NW, Suite 104, Grand Rapids, MI 49544, Attorney for Petitioner.

Stefanie N. Hennes [ARGUED], United States Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, P.O. Box 878, Ben Franklin Station, Washington, DC 20044, Attorney for Respondent.

Before: SMITH, Chief Judge, GREENAWAY, JR., and KRAUSE, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

In plain terms, we are called to decide whether precluding a father from ever having his born-out-of-wedlock child derive citizenship through him can be squared with the equal-protection mandate of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment.

In not so plain terms, under the now repealed...

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