Duran v. Crab Shack Acqusition, FL, LLC, Joe's Crab Shack

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that (M)(i) “does not have a plain and unambiguous meaning, at least not as applied to a conviction under section 7206(1) of the Internal Revenue Code.”
• counseling courts to examine the statutory language, as well as “the broader context of the statute as a whole”
• recognizing ―the goal of avoiding surplusage in construing a statute‖
• “We start with the principle that if at all possible, we should adopt a construction which recognizes each element of the statute.”
• “we should adopt a importance to terrorist activity, terrorists, construction which recognizes each or terrorist organizations. Put another element of the statute”
• “Subsection (M)(i) has a general application–the gamut of state and federal crimes involving fraud and deceit causing losses over $10,000.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).