Supreme Court· 2/25/2015

Yates v. United States

Citations

135 S. Ct. 1074
191 L. Ed. 2d 64
2015 U.S. LEXIS 1503
25 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 93
83 U.S.L.W. 4120
2015 A.M.C. 626

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finding that a fish was not a “tangible object” under the statute because “[i]n law as in life, however, the same words, placed in different contexts, sometimes mean different things”
finding that a fish was not a “tangible object” under the statute because “[i]n law as in life, however, the same words, placed in different contexts, sometimes mean different things”
declining to apply literal meaning of “tangible object” as used in Sarbanes-Oxley” to a fish
explaining that a statutory title can \supply cues\ of Congress's intent
“[Identical language may convey varying content when used in different statutes, sometimes even in different provisions of the same statute”
“Ordinarily, a word’s usage accords with its dictionary definition. In law as in life, however, the same words, placed in different contexts, sometimes mean different things.”

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