Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund, Cross-Appellees v. Lady Baltimore Foods, Inc., Cross-Appellant

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• noting that Congress might be unable to overturn final judgments without “invad[ing] the judicial power of the United States, which Article III of the Constitution confides to the federal courts exclusively”
• \[m]uch modern legislation involves targeting government largesse on politically influential groups and the burdens of government on politically impotent ones\
• “[m]uch modern legislation involves targeting government largesse on politically influential groups and the burdens of government on politically impotent ones”
• “[T]he general rule honored even by interpretive literalists is that if a literal reading would produce an absurd result the interpreter is free (we would say compelled) to depart in the direction of sense.”

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