United States v. Jimmie Jones, United States of America v. Pedro Lopez-Vargas

How courts have described this case

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

• discussing the great leeway given to prison officials to transfer inmates — even into more restrictive conditions — without implicating a liberty interest
• “[I]t is appropriate to assume that the ordinary meaning of [the words of a statute] accurately express[ ] the legislative purpose.”
• “In determining legislative intent, we must consider the statute read as a whole.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).