Federal Trade Commission v. Manager, Retail Credit Company, Miami Branch Office

How courts have described this case

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

• “The proper function of legislative history is to resolve ambiguity, not to create it.”
• “The congressional prescription was a comprehensive series of restrictions on the disclo- sure and use of credit information assembled by consumer reporting agencies.”
• “The proper function of legislative history is to resolve ambiguity, not to create it.”
• “[S]ection 604 was undoubtedly directed, in part at least, at preventing investigations by governmental agencies which might seek to use the information obtained from consumer reports to prosecute the consumers.”
• presumption against interpretations of statutory provisions that render them meaningless

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).