Atlantic Cleaners & Dyers, Inc. v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a word that appears in a statutory section is generally considered to have the same meaning throughout the section
• holding that a word that appears in a statutory section is generally considered to have the same meaning throughout the section
• holding that the presumption of uniformity gives way “[w]here the subject-matter to which the words refer is not the same in the several places where they are used”
• stating that identical words used in different parts of the same statutory section are intended to have the same meaning
• recognizing “natural presumption” that words used in different parts of the same act are intended to have the same meaning
• stating that the same words in a statute may be interpreted differently “[w]here the subject matter to which the words refer is not the same”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).