By: Derek Hawkins//August 19, 2019//
7th Circuit Court of Appeals
Case Name: United States of America v. Eleazar Corral Valenzuela
Case No.: 18-2789
Officials: WOOD, Chief Judge, and BAUER and ST. EVE, Circuit Judges.
Focus: Immigration – Naturalization Denied
Seventeen years after Eleazar Corral Valenzuela (Corral) was convicted of aggravated criminal sexual abuse of a minor family member in Illinois state court, the United States filed a civil complaint to revoke his naturalized citizenship and cancel his certificate of naturalization. 8 U.S.C. § 1451(a). The district court granted the government judgment on the pleadings, see Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(c), after dismissing Corral’s affirmative defenses. We affirm.
Affirmed