Shamokin Filler Co. v. Federal Mine Safety & Health Review Commission

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• finding that Congress’s choice of a definite article—rather than an indefinite article—regulated activity at a particular place
• explaining that the phrase “the coal mine” refers to one “particular place,” whereas the phrase “a coal mine” refers to “a typical, paradigmatic, ‘usual’ coal mine” (quoting RNS Servs., Inc. v. Sec’y of Labor, 115 F.3d 182, 185 (3d Cir. 1997))

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