White v. Salem

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that it \would make no sense\ to allow a state regulation to evade preemption simply because it addressed the purchase, rather than manufacture, of a federally regulated product
• noting that -“[statutory construction must begin with the language employed by Congress and the assumption that the ordinary, meaning of that language accurately expresses the legislative purpose”
• noting that “[s]tatutory construction must begin with the language employed by Congress and the assumption that the ordinary meaning of that language accurately expresses the legislative purpose”
• finding preemption under the Clean Air Act although the re- quirements directly targeted car buyers rather than sellers
• finding preemption under the Clean Air Act although the requirements directly targeted car buyers rather than sellers
• \Statutory construction must begin with the language employed by Congress and the assumption that the ordinary meaning of that language accurately expresses the legislative purpose\ (internal quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).