Elgin Nursing & Rehabilitation Center v. United States Department of Health & Human Services

How courts have described this case

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

• “The punctuation between the clauses, a semicolon, tends to suggest related but separate ideas and stands for ‘or,’ not ‘and.’ Clauses separated by a semicolon are presumed to be independent clauses.”
• “This court and others have held that opinion letters, handbooks and other published declarations of an agency’s views, including amicus briefs, are authoritative sources of the agency’s interpretation of its own regulations.” (citations and internal quotation marks omitted)
• “This court and others have held that opinion letters, handbooks and other published declarations of an agency’s views, including ami-cus briefs, are authoritative sources of the agency’s interpretation of its own regulations.” (citations and internal quotation marks omitted)
• “[A] semicolon... tends to suggest related but separate ideas[.]” (citations omitted)
• discussing Christopher v. SmithKline Beecham Corp., 567 U.S. 142 (2012)
• applying rules of statutory construction to the interpretation of regulations

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).