City of Los Angeles, a Municipal Corporation v. Brock Adams, as Secretary of Transportation of the United States

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “[W]e are bound to follow Congress’s last word . . . even in an appropriations law.”
• “When Congress modifies a statute by an appropriations measure ... the agency administering the statute is required to effectuate the original statutory scheme as much as possible”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).