Salvatore Bortone v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• “[I]t appears from the statute that the purpose of LQA is to provide an incentive to prospective employees to move overseas to work for the federal government.”
• “Dictionaries can serve as the basis for determining the plain meaning [of a term].”
• “It is well-settled that when a statute or regulation does not provide the definition of a term, courts construe the term in accordance with its ordinary or natural meaning. Dictionaries can serve as the basis for determining the plain meaning.” (internal citations omitted)
• granting deference to the Navy’s interpretation of the DSSR

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).