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· 2/27/1985

Heckler v. Turner

Citations

  • 470 U.S. 184
  • 105 S. Ct. 1138
  • 84 L. Ed. 2d 138
  • 1985 U.S. LEXIS 56
  • 53 U.S.L.W. 4211

How courts have described this case

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  • holding mandatory tax withholdings excludible from income for purposes of § 602(a)(7) because they are “unavailable”
  • noting that subsequent legislative history can shed useful light on Congressional intent
  • noting that subsequent legislative history can shed useful light on Congressional intent
  • noting that subse- quent legislative history can shed useful light on Congressional intent
  • referring to later enacted legislation in interpreting an earlier statute and stating that \it carries . . . considerable retrospective weight\ (collecting cases)
  • “hesitat[ing]” to adopt an interpretation at odds with Congress’s “budgetary objectives . . . particularly when the infor- mation provided Congress by its own Budget Office, on which it presum- ably relied, belies that conclusion”

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Judges: Blackmun

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