Department of Homeland Security v. MacLean

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that, by using the phrase “law, rule, or regulation” to describe protected disclosures, while using the word “law” to describe excepted disclosures, Congress intended to exclude disclosures that violated rules or regulations from excepted disclosures
• “Congress generally acts intentionally when it uses particular language in one section of a statute but omits it in another”
• “Congress generally acts intentionally when it uses particular language in one section of a statute but omits it in another.”
• “Thus, Congress’s choice to say ‘specifically prohibited by law’ rather 28 than ‘specifically prohibited by law, rule, or regulation’ suggests that Congress meant to exclude rules and regulations.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).