An Indiana court of appeals ruling is NOT controlling precedent, i.e., no Courts in any of the other States are controlled by an Indiana court of appeals ruling and any said Court can disregard said ruling. Indeed even Courts in Indiana can challenge the Indiana court of appeals ruling before the Indiana Supreme Court.
American presidential elections are decided on a state-by-state accumulation of electoral college votes. If the Ankeny decision had invalidated Obama’s Indiana electoral college votes, a cascade of other states would have followed suit.
While Ankeny is not controlling precedent, it is one more Court decision than has ruled that the citizenship of one’s parents matters in determining natural born citizen status for a person born in the United States.
While Ankeny is not controlling precedent...
56 posted on Friday, December 17, 2010 11:06:43 AM by jamese777
Thank you for admitting ankeny is NOT controlling precedent.