Claimants filed a case against defendants before the court. They requested the court to dismiss the defendant’s decision by which they were deprived from being stateless. They said that they have been born in Kuwait and that they had obtained the passports of Dominican Republic but the passports had been forged ones.

The court ruled that the decision should be dismissed.

The defendants appealed the ruling before the court of appeal. The court upheld the appealed ruling.

The defendants appealed the ruling before the court of cassation. They said in their grounds that the appealed ruling had erred in the application of law. They said that the first claimant, the father of the other claimants, held the passport of the Dominican Republic. They said that the defendants could not be treated as stateless persons according to Kuwait Decree No. 2/1993.