Cleary v. Cardullo's, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• under ambiguous statute, details of legislative policy not spelled out in statute may appropriately be determined by agency charged with administration of statute
• “Significance in interpretation may be given to a consistent, long continued administrative application of an ambiguous statute,” but interpretation or regulation may not conflict with statute
• “Significance in [statutory] interpretation may be given to a consistent, long continued administrative application of an ambiguous statute . . . especially if the interpretation is contemporaneous with the enactment”
• “Significance in interpretation may be given to a consistent, long continued administrative application of an ambiguous statute, . . . especially if the interpretation is contemporaneous with the enactment” [citations omitted]
• Although “[t]he duty of statutory interpretation is for the courts . . . the details of legislative policy, not spelt out in the statute, may appropriately be determined, at least in the first instance, by an agency charged with administration of the statute”
• “duty of statutory interpretation is for the courts”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).