United States v. Brandon Council

How courts have described this case

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• applying statutory definition of “goods” under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, see 29 U.S.C. § 203(1), even though it exceeded common understanding of the word, because “statutory definitions ... prevail over colloquial meanings”
• “production” includes “all steps whether manufacture or not, which lead to readiness for putting goods into the stream of commerce”
• “[T]he judicial function does not allow us to disregard that which Congress has plainly and constitutionally decreed and to formulate exceptions which we think, for practical reasons, Congress might have made had it thought more about the problem.”
• “[T]he judicial function does not allow us to disregard that which Congress has plainly and constitu- tionally decreed and to formulate exceptions which we think, for practical reasons, Congress might have made had it thought more about the problem.”
• “[W]e take the Act as Congress gave it to us, without attempting to confirm it to any notions of what Congress would have done if the circumstances of this case had been put before it.”
• “[W]e take the Act as Congress gave it to us, without attempting to confirm it to any notions of what Congress would have done if the circumstances of this case had been put before it.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).