Catherine Flynn and Ryan Flynn, a Minor, by His Mother Catherine Flynn v. George Shultz, Secretary of State of the United States of America, Defendant

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• holding that the Hostage Act contained no “standards upon which judicial review could be undertaken” where the terms of the statute and the legislative history provide no indication as to the meaning of the phrase “unjustly deprived”
• “Obviously, the Mexican government is not bound by the requirements of our Constitution.”
• “Obviously, the Mexican government is not bound by the requirements of our Constitution.”
• “Not only would it be inappropriate for us to scrutinize the defendant under such a vague and subjective standard, but the vagueness of the term itself indicates to us that ... Congress seems to have contemplated that the President would make a subjective judgment.”

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