Norfolk Energy, Inc. v. Donald Hodel, Secretary of the Interior of the United States

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• discounting a sentence in the preamble to the agency’s regulations because “the overall regulatory and statutory scheme” supported a different interpretation
• “In discerning the meaning of regulatory language, our task is to interpret the regulation as a whole, in light of the overall statutory and regulatory scheme, and not to give force to one phrase in isolation.” (citation and quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).