Angelika Knipping [SEP] country of citizenship
Angelika Knipping
Angelika Knipping (born January 7, 1961 in Hagen, Nordrhein-Westfalen) is a retired female breaststroke swimmer from Germany, who won a gold medal at the 1981 Summer Universiade in Bucharest. She represented West Germany at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.
References.
- sports-reference
One early case causing retroactive restoration of citizenship was "Schneider v. Rusk" (1964). In that case, the Supreme Court considered , which provided for loss of U.S. citizenship by a naturalized citizen taking up residence in a country of which he or she had previously been a citizen. The Court found that the statute unconstitutionally discriminated between native-born and naturalized citizens. This ruling protected plaintiff-appellee Angelika Schneider from unwanted loss of her U.S. citizenship, against which she had protested by taking her case to the Supreme Court