Building & Construction Trades Department, Afl-Cio v. Lynn Martin, Secretary of Labor

How courts have described this case

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

• observing that “legislative history can only help to explain a statute; it cannot reconstruct it”
• “[A] provision contained in an appropriations bill operates only in the applicable fiscal year, unless its language clearly indicates that it is intended to be permanent”
• “[T]he Secretary of Labor’s statutory authority does not require task-oriented definitions [of helpers].”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).