United States v. Blake Brown, Jr.

How courts have described this case

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

• “In common usage, a year means 365 consecutive days . . . or 12 months.”
• “Congress was careful to delineate specific circumstances in which a conviction involving sex will not lead to classification as an offender under SORNA.”
• “ ‘[T]he starting point for interpreting a statute is the language of the statute itself.’ When words are not defined within the statute, we construe them ‘in accordance with [their] ordinary or natural meaning.’ We do not, however, do so blindly.” (citations omitted)
• “ ‘[T]he starting point for interpreting a statute is the language of the statute itself.’ When words are not defined within the statute, we construe them ‘in accordance with [their] ordinary or natural meaning.’ We do not, however, do so blindly.” (citations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).