United States v. Kimsey

How courts have described this case

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• holding that statutory terms “grouped in a list should be given related meaning”and “[t]hat several items in a list share an attribute counsels in favor of interpreting the other items as possessing that attribute as well”
• even when an interpretation is conceivable “based on etymology alone,” that definition is “severely undermined” when it is illogical in light of the neighboring statutory terms

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).