Arkansas National Bank v. Gunther

How courts have described this case

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

• rejecting the Department of Labor’s interpretation of the Davis-Bacon Act, which regulates public works, to apply to construction of privately funded, owned, and operated buildings
• rejecting the Department of Labor’s interpretation of the Davis-Bacon Act, which regulates public works, to apply to construction of privately funded, owned, and operated buildings
• “We are unwilling to green-light such a massive, atextual, and ahistorical expansion of the Davis-Bacon Act.”
• “When a new situation arises outside the scope of an old statute, the proper approach under our system of separation of powers is for Congress to amend the statute, not for the Executive Branch and the courts to rewrite the statute beyond what the statute’s terms can reasonably bear.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).