Public Citizen, Inc. v. Rubber Manufacturers Ass'n

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that courts should “if possible, . . . construe a statute so as to give effect to every clause and word” (cleaned up)
• noting that all parties, including the Department of Transportation, had agreed that “[j]udicial deference is neither sought nor owed to the agency’s interpretation” of a statute’s nature under Exemption 3 (alteration in original) (citation omitted)
• “Congress knows well how to say that disclosures may be made only under specified provisions or circumstances, but it did not do so here.” (footnote and emphasis omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).