Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Worth Bullion Group, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting the types of entities covered by the statute “provide financing” as “a core function and purpose of such businesses”
• interpreting “consumer finance 23 institution” to mean companies for which the provision of financing and cash loans is a “core 24 function and purpose.”
• court rejected dictionary definitions of statutory term because context of statute indicated a different definition
• “Under the principle of noscitur a sociis, the fact that several items in a list share an attribute counsels in favor of interpreting the other items as possessing that attribute as well.” (cleaned up)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).