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· 5/21/1996

Consumer Federation of America and Public Citizen v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Citations

  • 83 F.3d 1497
  • 317 U.S. App. D.C. 449
  • 1996 U.S. App. LEXIS 11526
  • 1996 WL 264526

How courts have described this case

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  • finding the agency’s interpretation of an ambiguous statutory provision inadequate in part because the agency failed to define “normal working conditions” and explain why the protocol it selected was normal
  • statutory reading unlikely when Congress “presumably would have drafted the statute differently” to achieve obvious alternative outcome

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Judges: Wald, Silberman, Sentelle

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