Star Video Entertainment, L.P. v. Video USA Associates

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that the principles of 15 interpretation discussed and applied in Deal “apply to all positive legal rules” and applying them to agency regulations
• noting that courts may only “conclude that an ambiguity exists [in a regulation] . . . after we have exhausted all tools of construction”
• noting that the principles of interpretation discussed and applied in Deal “apply to all positive legal rules” and applying them to agency regulations
• noting that statutory interpretation principles from Deal “apply to all positive legal rules”
• noting that “[d]eference is not due unless a court, employing traditional tools of statutory construction, is left with an unresolved ambiguity”; and reiterating that an ambiguity exists only after a court has exhausted all tools of construction
• “At the core of the judicial power is the authority and the responsibility to interpret legal text.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).