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· 3/26/1996

Commonwealth of Virginia v. Browner

Citations

  • 80 F.3d 869
  • 26 Envtl. L. Rep. (Envtl. Law Inst.) 21245
  • 42 ERC (BNA) 1353
  • 1996 U.S. App. LEXIS 5334

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  • applying the APA standard to the EPA's disapproval of a state implementation plan
  • applying the “last antecedent” rule of grammatical construction because the modifying clause applies only to the item immediately preceding it where no serial comma is used in the series
  • a court should not \con- strue a statute in a manner that reduces some of its terms to mere sur- plusage\
  • a court should not “construe a statute in á manner that reduces some of its terms to mere sur-plusage”
  • \A court should not-- and we will not-- construe a statute in a manner that reduces some of its terms to mere surplusage.\
  • “[A] state does not lose any highway funds that would be spent in areas of the state that are in attainment.”

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