555 U.S. 511 (2009) Cited 215 times 1 Legal Analyses
Holding that Fedorenko's rule that voluntariness is irrelevant to culpability with respect to the DPA's persecutor bar need not be applied to the analogous INA persecutor bar
Holding that because petitioner's habeas petition was converted to a petition for review under the REAL ID Act, “whether Jordon was ‘in custody’ under § 2241 is a jurisdictional inquiry no longer relevant to our analysis here”
Granting derivative citizenship to a minor child of alien parents upon "[t]he naturalization of the parent having legal custody of the child when there has been a legal separation of the parents"
Granting derivative citizenship to children who satisfy certain requirements, including "residing in the United States pursuant to a lawful admission for permanent residence at the time of naturalization or thereafter "