citizenship lawssuit
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Attorneys representing the Intervenors in the citizenship case before the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals have argued that a Honolulu federal court decision is an example of how discriminatory classifications based on U.S. citizenship may be challenged on a case-by-case...
With one glaring exception, all persons born in the United States or its territories are U.S. citizens. The exception are persons born in American Samoa — a U.S. territory since 1900 — who hold an obscure and discriminatory status as “non-citizen nationals.” In December, a Utah federal court...