Coastal Barge Corp. v. Coastal Zone Industrial Control Board

How courts have described this case

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• “[E]ach part or section [of a statute] should be read in light of every other part or section to produce an harmonious whole.”
• “Words used in a statute that are undefined should be given their ordinary, common meaning.” (citing Diamond v. Chakrabarty, 447 U.S. 303, 308 (1980))
• \Ambiguity may also arise from the fact that giving a literal interpretation to words of the statute would lead to such unreasonable or absurd consequences as to compel a conviction that they could not have been intended by the legislature.\
• “The words ‘port’, ‘facility’ and ‘island’ are not defined in the Coastal Zone Act. Words used in a statute that are undefined should be given their ordinary, common meaning.” (citing Diamond v. Chakrabarty, 447 U.S. 303, 308 (1980

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).