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268 F.2d 207

Docket No. 15571.

Kozuki v. Dulles

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

Decided May 29, 1959.

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1959-05-29

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently May 1959

1 federal appellate ·

2 counsel of record

Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1481 (§ 349 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))

Relies on Nishikawa v. Dulles · Kiyama v. Dulles · Yukio Yamamoto v. John Foster Dulles, as Secretary of State

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Opinion by (per_curiam) · Decided 1959-05-29

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¶1*208Chuman & McKibbin, Los Angeles, Cal., for appellant.

¶2Laughlin E. Waters, U. S. Atty., Richard A. Levine, Bruce A. Bevan, Jr., Asst. U. S. Attys., Los Angeles, Cal., for ap-pellee.

¶3Before STEPHENS, BONE and CHAMBERS, Circuit Judges.

¶4PER CURIAM.

¶5This is an appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court refusing a declaration that appellant (plaintiff below) is now a national of the United States (§ 401, Nationality Act of 1940).*

¶6Heretofore, submission of this case to this Court for decision was set aside subject to the further order of this Court. Good cause appearing therefor, the case is resubmitted to this Court upon the record of the case and particularly upon the holding in Nishikawa v. Dulles, 356 U.S. 129, 78 S.Ct. 612, 617, 2 L.Ed.2d 659.

¶7We have reviewed the Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law in our case, and we cannot say that the District Court conformed to the test of voluntariness set out in Nishikawa as follows:

“Regardless of what conduct is alleged to result in expatriation, whenever the issue of voluntariness is put in issue, the Government must in each case prove voluntary conduct by clear, convincing and unequivocal evidence.”

¶8The case is remanded to the District Court for further proceedings in accord with the quotation from Nishikawa. See Norio Kiyama v. Dulles, Upon Petition for Rehearing, 9 Cir., 268 F.2d 110 (April 27,1959), and Yukio Yamamoto v. Dulles, Upon Petition for Rehearing, 9 Cir., 268 F.2d 111 (April 27, 1959).

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