USA, ex rel Grégoire v Watkins

• Date: 13 September 1946
• Court: United States District Courts
• Docket Number: Case No. 50

District Court New York

Case No. 50

United States of America ex rel Grégoire

and

Watkins

Nationality — Effects of Change of Sovereignty — Natives Alsace — Meaning of the term “Native”— The Law of the United States.

In United States ex rel. Gregoire v. Watkins, 69 F. Supp. 889, a District Court in New York held, on September 13, 1946, following the principle laid down in United States ex rel. d'Esquiva v. Uhl (Annual Digest, 1943–1945, Case No. 8), that a person born in Alsace under German sovereignty could not, since 1919, be regarded as a “native” of Germany in the meaning of the United States Alien Enemies Act, as Alsace had become a component part of France.