| Fedorenko v. United States | ||||||
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Supreme Court of the United States |
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| Argued October 15, 1980 Decided January 21, 1981 |
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| Full case name | Feodor Fedorenko v. United States | |||||
| Citations | 449 U.S. 490 (more) 101 S.Ct. 737; 66 L.Ed.2d 686 |
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| Prior history | Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit | |||||
| Holding | ||||||
| As a person who had assisted the enemy in persecuting civilians, Fedorenko's visa was illegally procured and therefore his citizenship must be revoked under § 340(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act. | ||||||
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| Case opinions | ||||||
| Majority | Marshall, joined by Brennan, Stewart, Powell, Rehnquist | |||||
| Concurrence | Burger | |||||
| Concurrence | Blackmun | |||||
| Dissent | White | |||||
| Dissent | Stevens | |||||
Fedorenko v. United States, 449 U.S. 490 (1981), was a United States Supreme Court case which held that people who assisted in Nazi persecutions, whether voluntarily or involuntarily, were not eligible for visas to enter the United States, and thus could not legally obtain United States citizenship. It has been used as an important precedent in many denaturalization cases against former Nazis.