Animal Legal Defense Fund v. U.S. Department of Agriculture

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• using Webster’s Dictionary while examining the AWA to find that “issue” is defined as “to come out, go out” and renew is defined as “to make new again, to restore fullness or sufficiency” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “Where Congress knows how to say something but chooses not to, its silence is controlling.” (quotation omitted)
• “Where Congress knows how to say something but chooses not to, its silence is controlling.”
• “In the absence of a statutory definition, we look to the common usage of words for their meaning.”
• “Where Congress knows how to say something but chooses not to, its silence is controlling.”
• “Whether an agency action is reviewable under § 701(a)(2) is a matter of subject matter jurisdiction.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).