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The Cassazione (Corte di Cassazione) is Italy's supreme court, the highest court in the Italian judicial system. Its rulings are binding on lower courts and shape Italian citizenship law.
The Cassazione's 2009 ruling on case no. 4466 established that the pre-1948 gender restriction on Italian citizenship transmission was unconstitutional, opening the '1948 path' for descendants of Italian women who gave birth before January 1, 1948.
Subsequent Cassazione rulings have expanded the 1948 path to additional fact patterns, including cases involving naturalization timing and dual-line descent.
Related terms
A 1948 case is a judicial petition for Italian citizenship filed in the civil court of Rome, available to descendants of Italian women who gave birth before January 1, 1948.
Jure sanguinis (Italian for 'right of blood') is the Italian citizenship-by-descent regime, which has no generational limit and is the most accessible CBD regime in Europe.
The anagrafe is the Italian civil registry office that maintains records of residents, births, marriages, and deaths in each Italian commune (municipality).
An atto di nascita is an Italian birth certificate, retrieved from the anagrafe (civil registry) of the commune where the person was born.
Stato civile (civil status) refers to the Italian system of civil registration of births, marriages, and deaths, maintained by the anagrafe in each commune.
A comune is an Italian municipality — the basic unit of local government. There are 7,900+ comuni in Italy, each with its own anagrafe (civil registry).