El Pueblo de Puerto Rico v. Orsini Martínez

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• observing that, at times, a court may “construe the statute contrary to its ‘plain language’ if a literal interpretation makes a discrimination for which no rational ground can be suggested.”
• “[W]e may at times construe a statute contrary to its ‘plain language’ if a literal interpretation makes a discrimination for which no rational ground can be suggested.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).