PEOPLES GAS SYSTEM, a division of TAMPA ELECTRIC COMPANY v. UNIVERSAL PROPERTY & CASUALTY INSURANCE

How courts have described this case

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

• taking the fact that Congress did not do “the simplest thing” to achieve an objective as evidence that Congress did not seek that objective
• considering \drafting history\ -- i.e., amendments to a statutory provision over time -- as one of several \contextual clues\ toward that provision's meaning
• “A preamble, purpose clause, or recital is a permissible indicator of meaning.” (quoting A. Scalia & B. Garner, Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts 217 (2012))
• “A preamble, purpose clause, or recital is a permissible indicator of meaning.” (quoting Antonin Scalia & Bryan A. Garner, Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts 217 (2012))
• “When Congress includes particular language in one section of a statute but omits it from a neighbor, we normally understand that difference in language to convey a difference in meaning.”
• “When Congress includes particular language in one section of a statute but omits it from a neighbor, we normally understand that difference in language to convey a difference in meaning.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).