Case name: Perkins v. Elg

Opinion filed: 1939-05-29

Docket No.: 454455

Citations:
• 307 U.S. 325
• 59 S. Ct. 884
• 83 L. Ed. 1320
• 1939 U.S. LEXIS 514

Case holding summaries:
• declining to adopt Executive's treaty interpretation
• construing treaty in accordance with historical construction and refusing to defer to change in Executive policy
• “Expatriation is the voluntary renunciation or abandonment of nationality and allegiance.”
• “As municipal law determines how citizenship may be acquired, it follows that persons may have a dual nationality.”
• declining to adopt Executive’s treaty interpretation
• declining to 9 defer to executive’s interpretation of treaty in light of past practice of contrary interpretation of 10 similar treaties
• rejecting argument that naturalization treaty abrogated minor's right to elect citizenship on attaining majority

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