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· 2/6/1896

City of Petersburg v. Todd

Citations

  • 2 Va. Dec. 301
  • 24 S.E. 232

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding it is improper to disregard “the Congressional intent clearly expressed in the text simply by asserting that its preferred approach would be better policy”
  • explaining that many statutory requirements for SIPs relate to the regulation of stationary sources
  • “[If] scope of the authorization ... is clear in the statute, the scope of the implied preemption can be resolved at Chevron step one.”
  • “there must be evidence that Congress meant something other than what it literally said before a court can depart from plain meaning”
  • “The [agency’s] strongest arguments arise from an apparent tension between two aspects of the authorization regime.”
  • \The [agency's] strongest arguments arise from an apparent tension between two aspects of the authorization regime.\

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