Don't Tear It Down, Inc. v. Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation

How courts have described this case

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• meaning of the statute is derived not from isolated portions but from a consideration of an entire enactment against the backdrop of its policies and objectives
• insofar as local laws may substantially impede federal activities or directly place prohibition on federal government, they are presumptively invalid
• \surely the preemption doctrine effects District of Columbia legislation no less than state enactments\
• “[S]tatutory meaning is of course to be derived, not from the reading of a single sentence or section, but from consideration of an entire enactment against the backdrop of its policies and objectives.”
• “[P]reemption doctrine [a]ffects District of Columbia legislation no less than state enactments.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).