US v. Abdul-Ganiu

May 03, 2012

OUTCOME:

Abdul-Ganiu also challenges the propriety of the District Court’s order at sentencing that he surrender his Nigerian passport. We conclude that Abdul-Ganiu lacks standing to contest the District Court ... ’s directive as passports are the property of the issuing sovereign, not the holder of the passport. See Richard A.C. Alton & Jason Reed Struble, The Nature of a Passport at the Intersection of Customary International Law and American Judicial Practice, 16 Ann. Surv. Int’l & Comp. L. 9, 15 (2010);