West Point Wholesale Grocery Co. v. City of Opelika, 352 U.S. 924 (1956). · Go Syfert
West Point Wholesale Grocery Co. v. City of Opelika, 352 U.S. 924 (1956). Cases Citing This Book View Copy Cite
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Strongest positive: Irwin S. Chanin v. The United States. Henry I. Chanin v. The United States. Sylvia Chanin v. The United States (cc, 1968-04-19)
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discussed Cited "see" Irwin S. Chanin v. The United States. Henry I. Chanin v. The United States. Sylvia Chanin v. The United States (2×)
Ct. Cl. · 1968 · signal: see · confidence high
See Heringer v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 235 F.2d 149 (9th Cir. 1956), cert. denied 352 U.S. 927 , 77 S.Ct. 225 , 1 L.Ed.2d 162 ; Treas.Reg. § 25.2511-1(h) (1), 1958-2 Cum.Bull. 645-646 3 H.R.Rep.
discussed Cited "see, e.g." Jay A. Pritzker v. Bob Yari
1st Cir. · 1994 · signal: see also · confidence low
As a fundamental principle of statutory construction, we will not depart from, or otherwise embellish, the language of a statute absent either undeniable textual ambiguity, see United States v. Charles George Trucking Co., 823 F.2d 685, 688 (1st Cir.1987) (expounding the primacy of plain meaning), or some other extraordinary consideration, such *68 as the prospect of yielding a patently absurd result, see Sullivan v. CIA, 992 F.2d 1249, 1252 (1st Cir.1993) (“Courts will only look behind statutory language in the rare case where a literal reading must be shunned because it would produce an ab…
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West Point Wholesale Grocery Co.
v.
City of Opelika
No. 478.
Supreme Court of the United States.
Dec 3, 1956.
352 U.S. 924
M. R. Schlesinger, N. D. Denson and Tom B. Slade for appellant. Lawrence K. Andrews for appellee.
Published

Appeal from the Court of Appeals of Alabama. Probable jurisdiction noted.