BBC: An appeal claiming Barack Obama is too British to become president of the United States has been rejected by the US Supreme Court.
The lawsuit claimed he should be disqualified because, it claimed, he acquired the same British citizenship that his father had when he was born.
This meant he was not a "natural-born" US citizen, as the US constitution requires, it alleged.
Mr Obama's birth certificate shows he was born in Hawaii.
The issue was addressed by Mr Obama's aides during his presidential campaign, when they posted online his birth certificate - which was verified by Hawaiian officials.
This lawsuit, brought by retired New Jersey lawyer Leo Donofrio, gained a high profile because it was distributed by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to other justices for discussion.
It conceded that Mr Obama was born in Hawaii - but contended that he still held foreign citizenship at birth. >>> | December 8, 2008
THE GUARDIAN: US Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Obama Citizenship Case
The US supreme court has turned down an emergency appeal from a man who says Barack Obama is ineligible to be president because he was a British subject at birth.
The court did not comment on its order today, rejecting the call by Leo Donofrio to intervene in the presidential election.
Donofrio claimed that since Obama had dual nationality at birth, his mother was American and his Kenyan father was a British subject, he cannot possibly be a "natural born citizen", one of the requirements the US constitution lists for eligibility to be president.
Donofrio also contends that two other candidates, Republican John McCain and Socialist Workers candidate Roger Calero, also are not natural-born citizens and thus ineligible to be president.
At least one other appeal over Obama's citizenship remains at the court. Philip J Berg argues that Obama was born in Kenya, not Hawaii as Obama says and the Hawaii secretary of state has confirmed.
Berg says Obama also may be a citizen of Indonesia, where he lived as a boy. Federal courts in Pennsylvania have dismissed Berg's lawsuit. Federal courts in Ohio and the state of Washington have rejected similar lawsuits. >>> AP | December 8, 2008
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