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Associated Press and Law.com Legal Newswire
December 18, 2008

"[Supreme Court Justice Anthony] Kennedy on Wednesday[, December 17, 2008] denied without comment an appeal by Philip J. Berg, a Pennsylvania attorney, that claims Obama is either a citizen of Kenya or Indonesia and is ineligible to be president because he is not a 'natural-born citizen' of the U.S. as required by the Constitution. Another appeal from California, based on Berg's claims, also was denied.

"Individual justices and the entire Court have turned down emergency appeals over Obama's eligibility at least seven times in the past six weeks."

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