Chicago, Illinois 60604 July 7, 2015 Before RICHARD A. POSNER, Circuit Judge MICHAEL… v. No. 1:11-cv-05157 JOHN F. KERRY, Secretary of State, Joan Humphrey Lefkow, Judge

United States Court of Appeals
For the Seventh Circuit
Chicago, Illinois 60604
July 7, 2015
Before
RICHARD A. POSNER, Circuit Judge
MICHAEL S. KANNE, Circuit Judge
ILANA DIAMOND ROVNER, Circuit Judge
No. 14-1889
MOHAMED ABDUL MATHIN, Appeal from the United States District Court
Plaintiff-Appellant, for the Northern District of Illinois,
Eastern Division
v. No. 1:11-cv-05157
JOHN F. KERRY, Secretary of State, Joan Humphrey Lefkow, Judge
Defendant-Appellee.
O R D E R
On consideration of the Petition For Rehearing, filed by Plaintiff-Appellant on
June 22, 2015, and all members of the original panel having voted to DENY the Petition
For Rehearing,
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the Petition For Rehearing is DENIED.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the opinion issued in the above-entitled case on
April 7, 2015, is hereby amended as follows:

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Appeal No. 14-1889 Page 2
On page 2, the last sentence of the first full paragraph, which
reads: “Because the Government has a <strong and legitimate
interest in ensuring that only qualified persons are granted
citizenship,’ the Supreme Court has recognized that <doubts
should be resolved in favor of the United States.’ Berenyi v.
District Director, Immigration and Naturalization Service, 385
U.S. 630, 637 (1967); Bustamante-Barrera v. Gonzalez, 447 U.S.
388, 394-95 (5th Cir. 2006)” is deleted.
On page 4, in the 3 full paragraph, after the secondrd
sentence which begins “The Illinois Department of Public
Health …,” a footnote is added which reads: “In the course
of the subsequent investigation, the State Department was
informed that the Illinois Bureau of Vital Statistics had
flagged that delayed birth certificate as fraudulent.”

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