Landstar Express America, Inc. v. Federal Maritime Commission

How courts have described this case

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• reviewing de novo the question of the Commission’s jurisdiction where it “necessarily depend[s] upon the meaning and interpretation of” the Shipping Act
• using “common law agency principles” to interpret Shipping Act of 1984
• “[N]either courts nor federal agencies can rewrite a statute’s plain text to correspond to its supposed purposes.” (citations omitted)
• “[N]either courts nor federal agencies can rewrite a statute’s plain text to correspond to its supposed purposes.”
• “A statutory outcome is absurd if it defies rationality.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).