Supreme Court· 2/22/2011

Bruesewitz v. Wyeth LLC

Citations

131 S. Ct. 1068
179 L. Ed. 2d 1
562 U.S. 223
2011 U.S. LEXIS 1085

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\Post-enactment legislative history (a contradiction in terms) is not a legitimate - 33 - tool of statutory interpretation.\
“A coordinating [con]junction like ‘and’ is typically used for linking independent ideas.” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
“A coordinating [con]junction like ‘and’ is typically used for linking 12 independent ideas.” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
“Post-enactment legislative history ... is not a legitimate tool of statutory interpretation.”
“When all (or nearly all) of the relevant judicial decisions have given a term or concept a consistent judicial gloss, we presume Congress intended the term or concept to have that meaning when it incorporated it into a later-enacted statute.”

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