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· 7/18/1957

Chien Fan Chu v. Herbert Brownell, Jr., Individually and as Attorney General of the United States

Citations

  • 247 F.2d 790
  • 101 U.S. App. D.C. 204
  • 1957 U.S. App. LEXIS 3751

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  • “We are bound to conclude that when Congress used these differing terms in the same act . . . making each word applicable to a different thing, it did not intend the carefully distinguished and separately defined words to mean the same thing.” (internal quotations omitted)

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Judges: Danaher, Bazelon, Danaheb, Bastían

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