Chris Ronnie v. U.S. Department of Labor

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• holding that a claimant who was permanently partially disabled due to a scheduled injury could not choose to be compensated for his actual loss of wage-earning capacity under § 908(e)(21
• stating that where plain statutory language “produces incongruities, the federal courts may not avoid them by rewriting or ignoring that language”
• holding that a claimant who was permanently partially disabled due to a scheduled injury could not choose to be compensated for his actual loss of wage-earning capacity under § 908(e)(21) rather than being compensated for his loss as provided by the schedule
• stating that deference should not be accorded to the Board's interpretation of a statute
• holding that a statute that included a “compen- sation schedule” for “20 different specific injuries,” as well as an “additional subparagraph” that applied to “‘all other cases’” could not be read to apply the additional subpara- graph of “other” cases to the enumerated injuries
• noting the difficulty posed in continuing judicial interpretation of a statute which Congress had not chosen to reexamine in more than half a century

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