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Fourth Circuit· 4/25/2013

Mahmoud Hegab v. Letitia Long

Citations

  • 716 F.3d 790
  • 35 I.E.R. Cas. (BNA) 837
  • 2013 WL 1767628
  • 2013 U.S. App. LEXIS 8411
  • 118 Fair Empl. Prac. Cas. (BNA) 8

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

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Judges: Niemeyer, Motz, Davis

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