Abdul Rahim Janko v. Robert M. Gates

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• agreeing with a party’s concession that “courts ordinarily don’t detain people”
• “The preeminent canon of statutory interpretation requires us to presume that the legislature says in a statute what it means and means in a statute what it says there.” (citation modified)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).