Mullin v. Doe · ¶128

“[V]ery broad” might be one description for that reading of the term “determination”; very strange is another. Just last Term, this Court observed that the word “determination” is a “term[] of everyday usage,” and then said what it means: the “settling and ending of a controversy”; “the resolving of a question by argument or reasoning”; “[t]he decision arrived at or promulgated”; or “a determinate sentence, conclusion, or opinion.” EPA v. Calumet Shreveport Refining, L.L.C., 605 U. S. 627, 643 (2025). Missing from those definitions (or any other you, as an English speaker, would naturally come up with) is any suggestion that events preceding a determination—including required procedural steps—are properly referred to as the “determination” itself. See McNary v. Haitian Refugee Center, Inc., 498 U. S. 479, 492 (1991) (construing the word “determination” in another judicial-review bar as…

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