Steven Lynn Ramsey v. Edward Brennan

How courts have described this case

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

• deferring to BOP policy that time served at halfway house prior to trial does not constitute “custody” for purposes of statute permitting credit for time served
• noting that the word “custody” is a chameleon
• Bu reau’s interpretation “is a reasonable opinion by officials having greater knowledge of federal penal policy than we judges have, so we are inclined to defer to it.”
• rejecting Johnson’s equal protection analysis altogether
• “[t]he word [custody] is a chameleon.”
• \[t]he word [custody] is a chameleon.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).