Benita Almendarez v. Barrett-Fisher Company

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that with regards to DOL’s interpretation of the MSPA that \we are obliged to defer to reasonable interpretation of a statute by an agency charged with its administration\
• holding vegetable packing shed operators to be contractors under the FLORA where the operators “[could] identify no functional distinction between their activities ... and those of the middlemen recognized as farm labor contractors [under the Act].”
• “[L]iteral statutory construction is inappropriate if it would produce a result in conflict with the legislative purpose clearly manifested in an entire statute or statutory scheme or with clear legislative history.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).