## Facts

- A 1962 U.S. Department of the Army publication titled *International Law: Volume II* contains content on pages 247–48.
- The cited material is a military instructional manual addressing public international law for U.S. Army personnel, not a court or tribunal decision.
- The excerpted pages are referenced in some secondary study materials as if they were a “case,” but the excerpt’s substantive text is not available in the provided record.
- No litigating parties, adjudicative forum, evidentiary record, or procedural history is identified because the document is not an adjudication.

## Issues

1. Whether the cited source constitutes a judicial decision capable of being briefed using conventional case elements (parties, procedural posture, holding, reasoning).
2. Whether a specific holding or rule can be accurately stated from pages 247–48 without access to the text of those pages.

## Decision

- The cited material is not a judicial opinion; it is a doctrinal Army manual excerpt.
- Because the substance of pages 247–48 is not available in the provided record, no specific holding, rule of law, or reasoning can be reliably stated.
- Any detailed “case brief” assigning a concrete rule or rationale to the cited pages would be unsupported on this record.

## Legal Principles

- Doctrinal military manuals are nonadjudicative guidance documents and do not create case-style holdings absent incorporation by an adjudicative body.
- A legally accurate summary of a specific excerpt requires access to the excerpt’s text; without it, stating a precise rule or reasoning risks inaccuracy.
- Secondary descriptions that treat nonjudicial materials as “cases” do not supply missing primary text and cannot substitute for the underlying excerpt when the objective is an accurate rule statement.

## Conclusion

This citation points to a nonjudicial Army international-law manual excerpt; without the text of pages 247–48, the record supports only a contextual summary of the document’s nature and does not support a case-style holding or rule.


U.S. Dep’t of the Army, Int’l L., vol. II 247–48 (1962)