· 6/22/1983
National Ass'n of Greeting Card Publishers v. United States Postal Service
Citations
- 462 U.S. 810
- 103 S. Ct. 2717
- 77 L. Ed. 2d 195
- 1983 U.S. LEXIS 77
- 51 U.S.L.W. 4877
How courts have described this case
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- noting that under the Act “Congress sought to ensure that the Postal Service would be managed in a businesslike way”
- noting that under the Act \Congress sought to ensure that the Postal Service would be managed in a busi- nesslike way\ (internal quotation marks and citation omitted
- explaining that the PRA abolished the Post Office Department and “established the United States Postal Service as an independent agency under the direction of an eleven-member Board of Governors”
- refusing to treat House Managers’ Statement appended to conference report of Postal Reorganization Act as equivalent to conference report
- implying the substantial significance of conference reports in comparison to other forms of legislative history
- statement of House conferees conflicted with statute and became available only after Senate had completed consideration of bill
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Judges: Blackmun
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