Leonardo Subias v. Edwin Meese, Attorney General of the United States

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• holding that jurisdiction did not exist because the petitioner’s location abroad and custodian were unknown and, therefore, no governmental official could produce the body
• holding that jurisdiction did not exist because the petitioner’s location abroad and custodian were un- known and, therefore, no governmental official could produce the body
• “the requirement of custody is broadly construed to include restriction from entry into the United States, since denial of entry amounts to a restraint on liberty”
• habeas jurisdiction does not extend to foreign custodians
• habeas jurisdiction does not extend to foreign custodians

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).