Rabang v. Immigration And Naturalization Service

35 F.3d 1449 Rodolfo RABANG; Jose Tion Guillo; Leonora Ver Sanidad; Alfredo Maglinao; Josephine Ycaro; Michael Ycaro; John Ycaro, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Defendant-Appellee. No. 91-16125. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted Oct. 8, 1992. Decided Sept. 20, 1994. Ronald T. Oldenberg, Honolulu, HI, for plaintiffs-appellants. Lisa Dornell, Office of Immigration Litigation, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, for defendant-appellee. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii. Before: TANG, PREGERSON, and ALARCON, Circuit Judges. Opinion by Judge TANG; Dissent by Judge PREGERSON. TANG, Senior Circuit Judge: 1 Rodolfo Rabang and six other individuals appeal from the district court's dismissal of their complaints for failure to state a claim for relief. The complaints allege that plaintiffs or their parents were born in the Philippine Islands when those islands were United States territory, and seek declaratory judgments that plaintiffs are United States citizens under the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, or under the Citizenship Clause in conjunction with Sec. 301 of…