Revere Copper & Brass, Inc. v. Adriance Machine Works, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that courts “will not uphold an interpretation that diverges from any realistic meaning of the statute.”
• explaining that “text, legislative history, and structure” are traditional tools of statutory interpretation
• affording deference to agency interpretations that were “reasonable and consistent with the statute’s history and purpose”
• characterizing the Chevron Step One inquiry “as a search for the plain meaning of the statute”
• determination of whether a statutory provision is ambiguous involves a consideration of the entire statute, including its text, structure, purpose and legislative history
• When attempting to understand “the relationship between two different provisions within the same statute, [a court] must analyze the language of each to make sense of the whole [statute].”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).