No. 18-248

Mohamed Idris Ahmed v. United States

Lower Court: Sixth Circuit
Docketed: 2018-08-28
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: and whether the government must prove by clear an 8-usc-1451-a citizenship-revocation clear-and-convincing-evidence evidence-requirement evidence-standard Kungys-v-United-States legal-standard legal-test maslenjak-v-united-states naturalization-citizenship naturalization-process procurement procurement-element procurement-standard willful-concealment
Key Terms:
Immigration
Latest Conference: 2018-10-26
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the plurality decision in Kungys v. United States has caused confusion and varied interpretations by lower courts

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Whether the plurality decision in Kungys v. United States, 485 U.S. 759, 108 S. Ct. 1537, 99 L. Ed. 839 (1988) addressing the procurement element of a claim based on 8 U.S.C. § 1451(a) has caused such confusion and varied and conflicting interpretations by lower courts as to merit a reexamination of the legal test for the proof of procurement. 2. Whether the courts below failed to require that the United States prove, by clear, unequivocal and convincing evidence that Petitioner illegally procured naturalized citizenship by the willful concealment of information during the naturalization process, as required by Kungys, 485 U.S. 759, 108 S. Ct. 1537, 99 L. Ed. 839 (1988) and as addressed in Maslenjak v. United States, 582 U.S. __, 187 S. Ct. 1918, 198 L. Ed. 2d 460 (2017).

Docket Entries

2018-10-29
Petition DENIED.
2018-10-03
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/26/2018.
2018-09-27
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2018-08-22
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 27, 2018)

Attorneys

Mohamed Idris Ahmed
D. Wesley Newhouse IINEWHOUSE, PROPHATER, KOLMAN & HOGAN, LLC, Petitioner
D. Wesley Newhouse IINEWHOUSE, PROPHATER, KOLMAN & HOGAN, LLC, Petitioner
United States
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent