United States v. DiCristina

How courts have described this case

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• observing that rule of lenity applies only when all other rules of construction have been applied and ambiguity persists
• noting we should not 10 construe individual sections of a statute in “isolation,” but “look to the 11 provisions of the whole law” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “ “When an exclusive definition is intended the word ‘means’ is employed.’ ” (internal brackets and ellipsis omitted
• “[T]he rule of lenity only applies if, after considering text, structure, history, and purpose, there remains a grievous ambiguity or uncertainty in the statute.” (citation omitted)
• “When interpreting a statute, we ‘must begin with the language employed by Congress and the assumption that the ordinary meaning of that language accurately expresses the legislative purpose.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).