Mahmoud Hegab v. Letitia Long

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that “courts are generally without subject-matter jurisdiction” to review security clearance decisions because “a court should not be put in the position of second-guessing the discretionary judgment of an executive agency assessing national security risks”
• describing plaintiff’s assertion “that the agency did not make its decision for the reasons that it gave and therefore must have acted from an unconstitutional bias” as a “speculative” rather than “colorable” claim
• “[F]ederal courts are generally without subject-matter jurisdiction to review an agency’s security clearance decision.”
• affirming dismissal of constitutional claims

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Kansas Building Industry Workers Compensation Fund v. State
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2015-08-28· cited 43×
• Nathan Mowery v. National Geospatial Intelligence Agency
  Fourth Circuit· 2022-08-02· cited 18×
• Walton Campbell v. Ryan McCarthy
  Fourth Circuit· 2020-03-05· cited 12×
• Kruise v. Fanning
  E.D. Virginia· 2016-10-12· cited 9×
• Gill v. United States Department of Justice
  District of Columbia· 2017-11-14· cited 9×
• Kaiser Gill v. DOJ
  D.C. Circuit· 2017-11-14

Cites

22 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Ashcroft v. Iqbal
  Supreme Court· 2009-05-18· cited 149,772×
• Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly
  Supreme Court· 2007-05-21· cited 146,720×
• Baker v. Carr
  Supreme Court· 1962-03-26· cited 6,173×
• United States v. Nixon
  Supreme Court· 1974-07-24· cited 4,095×
• Agostini v. Felton
  Supreme Court· 1997-06-23· cited 1,924×
• Dolly Kyle Browning and Direct Outstanding Creations Corporation v. William Jefferson Clinton
  D.C. Circuit· 2002-08-01· cited 1,521×
• Trudeau v. Federal Trade Commission
  D.C. Circuit· 2006-07-28· cited 1,112×
• Webster v. Doe
  Supreme Court· 1988-06-15· cited 942×
• Department of the Navy v. Egan
  Supreme Court· 1988-02-23· cited 752×
• Kush v. Rutledge
  Supreme Court· 1983-04-04· cited 540×
• Valerie Bennett v. Marie Schmidt
  Seventh Circuit· 1998-08-31· cited 382×
• Oryszak v. Sullivan
  D.C. Circuit· 2009-08-14· cited 130×
• Cole v. Young
  Supreme Court· 1956-06-11· cited 108×
• Reinbold v. Evers
  Fourth Circuit· 1999-08-05· cited 98×
• Becerra v. Dalton
  Fourth Circuit· 1996-08-26· cited 84×
• Dorfmont v. Brown
  Ninth Circuit· 1990-09-10· cited 77×
• Taylor v. Kellogg Brown & Root Services, Inc.
  Fourth Circuit· 2011-09-21· cited 73×
• National Federation of Federal Employees v. Paul Greenberg, Major General, Commander, Headquarters, Army, Armament, Munitions & Chemical Command
  D.C. Circuit· 1993-01-29· cited 69×
• Michael Guillot v. H. Lawrence Garrett, Iii, in His Official Capacity as Secretary of the Navy United States Navy
  Fourth Circuit· 1992-07-23· cited 63×
• Michael E. Hubbard v. Environmental Protection Agency, Michael E. Hubbard v. Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency
  D.C. Circuit· 1992-03-02· cited 49×