United States v. Shreveport Grain & Elevator Co.

How courts have described this case

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• finding statute unambiguous and construing it according to \the natural import of its terms\
• acknowledging “the practical and long-continued construction of the executive departments charged with the administration of the act and with the duty of making the rules and regulations therein” in matters of statutory interpretation
• “extrinsic aids to construction” may be used “to solve, but not to create, an ambiguity” (emphasis and internal quotation marks omitted)
• “Congress may declare its will, and, after fixing a primary standard, devolve upon administrative officers their 'power to fill up the details' by prescribing administrative rules and regulations.”
• \[W]e should hesitate to accept the committee reports in preference to this contemporaneous and long-continued practical construction of the act on the part of those charged with its administration.\
• “[W]e should hesitate to accept the committee reports in preference to this contemporaneous and long-continued practical construction of the act on the part of those charged with its administration.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).