Roosevelt Whitfield v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining “the primary rule of statutory construction that the intent of the lawmaker is to be found in the language that he [or she] has used.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• literal interpretation of statute would unreasonably “effectuate a near-complete ban on the use of ubiquitous, license plate frames”
• “We apply the rule of lenity ... where the language of the regulation is ambiguous and two alternative interpretations are equally possible.”
• “[U]se of the word ‘and’ is—absent evidence to the contrary—treated as a 11 conjunctive . . . .”
• ―For purposes of binding precedent, a holding 15 is a narrow concept, a statement of the outcome accompanied by one or more legal steps or conclusions along the way that . . . are necessary to explain the outcome.‖
• applying “the rule of lenity to civil traffic regulations”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).