District of Columbia v. Place

How courts have described this case

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• “A court may refuse to adhere strictly to the plain language of a statute in order to effectuate the legislative purpose as determined by a reading of the legislative history or by an examination of the statute as a whole.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).