United States v. Dawes (In Re Dawes)

How courts have described this case

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• “[D]eparting from a precise statutory text may do no more than disturb a carefully wrought legislative compromise.” (internal quotation mark omitted)
• “[D]eparting from a precise statutory text may do no more than disturb a carefully wrought legislative compromise.” (quoting John F. Manning, Textualism and the Equity of the Statute, 101 Colum. L. Rev. 1, 18 (2001))
• “one who has ‘incurred’ an expense is liable for it.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).