United States v. John Robert Powell

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• noting 8 that courts avoid a statutory construction that would render 9 another part of the same statute superfluous
• “It is a basic rale of statutory construction that one provision should not be interpreted in a way which is internally contradictory or that renders other provisions of the same statute inconsistent or meaningless.” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)

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