ALVAREZ v. WINTER

Filing 9

MEMORANDUM AND OPINION. Signed by Judge James Robertson on 6/29/09. (ms, )

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) )

ROMUALDO ALVAREZ, Plaintiff, v. DONALD C. WINTER, Secretary of the Navy, Defendant.

Civil Action No. 08-1750 (JR)

MEMORANDUM OPINION This matter is before the Court on defendant's motion to dismiss. Plaintiff's formal employment discrimination claim against the Department of the Navy was dismissed, and the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") affirmed the decision on administrative appeal. See Compl., Attach. (July 8, Although the EEOC

2008 EEOC Denial, Appeal No. 0120081649) at 1.

Denial does not recount the underlying facts of the case, the Court presumes that plaintiff's citizenship was relevant to the Navy's initial decision. Plaintiff alleges that he is a dual citizen of the Philippines and of the United States because he was born in 1944 in the Philippine Islands when the Philippine Islands were a United States territory. Compl. at 6. In this action, plaintiff

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asks the Court to "confirm[] [his] having been born a US citizen" such that the United States Navy "allow[s] [him] to have access under [Title VII]." Id. at 7.

In Licudine v. Winter, 603 F. Supp. 2d 129 (D.D.C. 2009), this Court held that a person who, like plaintiff, was born in the Philippine Islands when the Philippines was a United States territory is neither a citizen nor a national of United States citizen. Id. at 135-36. Such a person, then, is an alien to Id. An

whom Title VII does not apply.

The Court will grant defendant's motion to dismiss. Order accompanies this Memorandum Opinion.

JAMES ROBERTSON United States District Judge

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