Chapman v. Durkin, Secretary of Labor

How courts have described this case

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• holding that hauling fruit away from a farm “cannot be said to be work performed . . . on a farm” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• holding that “‘we do not “make a fortress out of the dictionary” . . . by mechanically applying definitions in unintended contexts’” (quoting Farmers Reservoir & Irrigation Co. v. McComb, 337 U.S. 755, 764 (1949) (quoting Cabell v. Markham, 148 F.2d 737, 739 (2d Cir. 1945))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).