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· 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

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

  • 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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