Case Name: Huyen V. Nguyen, Petitioner, v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., United States Attorney General, Respondent
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2014-10-28
Citations: 24 N.Y.3d 1017
Docket Number: 
Parties: Huyen V. Nguyen, Petitioner, v Eric H. Holder, Jr., United States Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Concur: Chief Judge Lippman and Judges Graffeo, Read, Smith, Pigott and Rivera. Judge Smith concurs in an opinion in which Chief Judge Lippman and Judge Rivera concur. Judge Graffeo concurs in an opinion in which Judges Read and Pigott concur. Taking no part: Judge Abdus-Salaam.
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 24
Pages: 1017–1023

Head Matter:
[21 NE3d 1023, 997 NYS2d 362]
Huyen V. Nguyen, Petitioner, v Eric H. Holder, Jr., United States Attorney General, Respondent.
Argued September 9, 2014;
decided October 28, 2014
APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
Michael E. Marszalkowski, PC., Buffalo (Michael E. Marszalkowski of counsel), for petitioner.
United States Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, D.C. (.Michael C. Heyse, Stuart F. Delery and Mary Jane Candaux of counsel), for respondent.

Opinion:
OPINION OF THE COURT
Following certification of a question by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and acceptance of the question by this Court pursuant to section 500.27 of the Rules of Practice of the Court of Appeals (22 NYCRR 500.27) (22 NY3d 1150 [2014]), and after hearing argument by counsel for the parties and consideration of the briefs and the record submitted, certified question answered in the negative. A marriage where a husband is the half brother of the wife's mother is not void as incestuous under Domestic Relations Law § 5 (3).
Concur: Chief Judge Lippman and Judges Graffeo, Read, Smith, Pigott and Rivera. Judge Smith concurs in an opinion in which Chief Judge Lippman and Judge Rivera concur. Judge Graffeo concurs in an opinion in which Judges Read and Pigott concur. Taking no part: Judge Abdus-Salaam.