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· 3/27/1916

Bahns v. Earnest A. Carrere Co.

Citations

  • 13 Tiess. 290

Syllabus

<p>Syllabus.</p> <p>A contract should not be so construed as to render important expressions meaningless. If the ambiguity is attributable to one party, it should be dispelled in a sense most favorable to the other.</p>

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  • “[A]n interpretive rule does not have to parrot statutory or regulatory language but may have the effect of creating new duties.”
  • \[A]n interpretive rule does not have to parrot statutory or regulatory language but may have the effect of creating new duties.\
  • “If, despite an agency’s claim, a rule cannot fairly be viewed as interpreting—even incorrectly—a statute or a regulation, the rule is not an interpretive rule exempt from notice-and-comment rulemaking.”
  • “If a second rule repudiates or is irreconcilable with a prior legislative rule, the second rule must be an amendment of the first; and, of course, an amendment to a legislative rule must itself be legislative.”

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Judges: Emile, Honor, Odcelaux

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