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· 4/10/1967

Farmer v. Pate

Citations

  • 386 U.S. 999

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that exhaustion is required to challenge the issuance of a permit under the CZM Act
  • stating that equitable tolling is based on the equitable principle that, having unfairly lulled the plaintiff into inaction, the defendant may not profit by such wrongful conduct through invocation of the statute of limitations defense
  • “[A] recognized tenet of statutory interpretation directs that a specific provision in an enactment prevails over a seemingly irreconcilable general one.”
  • “[A]n administrative agency’s regulation that conflicts with the parent statute is ineffective.”
  • “[A]n administrative agency’s regulation that conflicts with the parent statute is ineffective.”

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