District of Columbia v. Julius Orleans, Trustee, Arnold Orleans, Trustee, and Mervyn I. Aronoff, Trustee

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• “the ‘plain meaning’ doctrine has always been subservient to a truly discernible legislative purpose however discerned, by equitable construction or recourse to legislative history”
• “The precept of strict construction of tax exempt provisions has vitality for doubtful cases, but it may not be properly used to defeat the purpose of the legislature.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).