Bullene v. Smith

How courts have described this case

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• “The meaning of the statutory section in issue here is not doubtful, and erroneous administrative practice for nine years cannot change its plain meaning.” (emphasis added)
• where a statute’s plain meaning is clear, a party is not entitled to have his case adjudicated based upon an agency’s consistent, but erroneous, interpretation of statute
• where a statute's plain meaning is clear, a party is not entitled to have his case adjudicated based upon an agency's consistent, but erroneous, interpretation of statute
• legislative history does not modify meaning of statutory language plain on its face

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).