United States v. Passaro

How courts have described this case

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• holding that Afghan military base fell within § 7(9) where the “United States had retained control for nearly a year and a half . . . , maintaining a meaningful permanent presence to conduct significant military operations, which the Afghan government sanctioned”
• doing the same and reviewing the district court's quashing of subpoenas to CIA officials for abuse of discretion
• “[C]ourts have uniformly recognized that various federal statutes criminalizing “assault” incorporate the long-established common law definition of that term.”
• “We remain mindful that in ‘interpreting the plain language of a statute, we give the terms their ordinary, contemporary, common meaning, absent an indication Congress intended’ the statute’s language ‘to bear some different import.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).