Gene A. Williams v. Secretary of the Navy

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that “the substance of the pleadings define a suit”
• discussing the directives and regulations implementing the Navy’s zero-tolerance drug policy
• “Substance not form is controlling.... It is well-settled that ‘a plaintiff should not be allowed to avoid the jurisdictional (and hence remedial
• “Mere recitation of a basis for jurisdiction, by either a party or a court, cannot be controlling: federal courts are of limited jurisdiction, and may not alter the scope of either their own or another courts’ statutory mandate.”

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