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U.S. Supreme Court,
Immigration,
Government

Jan. 4, 2018

Quinn Emanuel leads successful challenge to citizenship law before the Supreme Court

This summer, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a decades-old law that made it difficult for unmarried men to pass citizenship to their children born abroad.

Quinn Emanuel leads successful challenge to citizenship law before the Supreme Court
BROOME

At the urging of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP partner Stephen A. Broome, the U.S. Supreme Court decided in June that José Morales’ sex didn’t matter.

This at first seemingly innocuous determination was set to be a meaningful victory for Morales’ son, Luis Ramón Morales-Santana, who was fighting a removal order premised in part on the fact that his father, an American citizen, was male.

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