lakin's case differed from stefan cook's case in that cook volunteered to deploy, received orders, and then filed a civil suit refusing to serve; the military responded by revoking cook's voluntary orders. lakin was ordered to deploy and he refused to obey the orders, whereupon the military eventually initiated a criminal prosecution under the uniform code of military justice. on september 2, 2010, colonel denise lind, the presiding judge, issued a ruling in the case that obama's status as a natural-born citizen is irrelevant in the court-martial case against lakin, as (1) his orders had come not from obama himself but rather from senior officers with the independent legal authority to issue them and (2) obama's eligibility is outside the jurisdiction of the military and falls within the jurisdiction of the united states congress instead.