Brookside Veneers, Ltd. v. The United States

How courts have described this case

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

• “It is a general rule of statutory construction that where Congress has clearly stated its intent in the language of a statute, a court should not inquire further.”
• “It is a general rule of statutory construction that where Congress has clearly stated its intent in the language of a statute, a court should not inquire further.”
• “To assist it in ascertaining the common meaning of a tariff term, the court may. . . consult lexicographic and scientific authorities, dictionaries, and other reliable information sources.”
• courts may rely on their own understanding of terms

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).