Texas Southern University, Texas Southern University President Lesia Crumpton-Young and General Counsel Hao Le v. Mary Young

How courts have described this case

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• observing that it is a “normal rule of statutory construction ... that identical words used in different parts of the same act are intended to have the same meaning”
• reasoning that a state’s “special solicitude in the standing inquiry . . . means imminence and redressability are easier to establish [] than usual”
• holding railroads could not challenge as discriminatory a generally applicable property tax to which some non-railroad property, but not railroad property, was exempted
• noting that “the taxation authority of state government” is “an authority we have recognized as central to state sovereignty”
• recognizing congressional intent to “permit the states to tax railroad property at a higher rate than agricultural land”
• observing that it is a \normal rule of statutory construction . . . that identical words used in different parts of the same act are intended to have the same meaning\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).