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..., 766 (1985). The Tribe argues that, because the IRA is a remedial statute intended to benefit Indians, any ambiguity should be resolved in the Tribe's favor under these two canons. -------- Under the commands of the Supreme Court, a statute that "does not contain conflicting provisions or ambiguous language" does not "require a narrowing construction or application of any other canon or...the effect of Carcieri. Nor does the remedial statute canon allow us to "stretch" the statute's coverage "well beyond what the statutory text can naturally bear." Fla. Dep't of Revenue.... The Tribe offers two canons of construction they argue support their interpretation: "the canon of construction that remedial statutes should be liberally construed" in...


Court: United States Court of Appeals For the First Circuit
Date: Feb 27, 2020 Cited By: 11 Coram: 1
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...interpretation. See CTS Corp. v. Waldburger, 573 U.S. 1, 12 (2014) (stating the remedial statute canon is not "a substitute for a...conclusion grounded in the statute's text and structure"). The majority's unabashed reliance on the remedial statute canon is troubling given the immense criticism the so-called canon has received. The...PA, 936 F.3d 1184, 1195 (11th Cir. 2019) (expressly refusing to apply the so-called remedial statute canon because of its "dubious...


Court: Supreme Court of Wisconsin
Date: Mar 14, 2024 Cited By: 4 Coram: 1
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...public policy. The public policy decision turns on the notion that the nursing home statute is remedial. The decisions involving the remedial canon point in diverse interpretive directions. In my view, reading a statute as...court has qualified the remedial canon. Sometimes the canon may mean an expansive interpretation, but it may not. Along with those decisions, there is another body of supreme court decisions referring to remedial statutes as procedural. In some the fact that the statute is...., 606 So.2d 1154, 1155-56 (Fla. 1992) (citing remedial canon but holding that where a statutory provision is clear and not unreasonable or illogical in its operation, the court must construe the words chosen by the legislature in their plain and ordinary meaning and may not give the statute a...


Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
Date: May 25, 2005 Cited By: 63 Coram: 2
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...the so-called liberal construction canon: "remedial statute[s]" like RESPA should be "construed broadly to effectuate [their] purposes...liberal construction canon is legitimate and should play a role in the interpretive process, its trigger—a "remedial statute"—is hopelessly vague. What exactly is a "remedial" statute? Every statute is "remedying" some sort of problem. Given this vagueness, courts can invoke the canon on.... THAPAR, Circuit Judge. To sue someone, you must have a cause of action. And you only have a cause of action under a federal statute if the statute's text provides you...


Court: UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT
Date: Jul 18, 2019 Cited By: 37 Coram: 1
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...canon of construction that remedial statutes should be liberally construed. It also eliminates the inconsistencies between purpose and practice which flow from the McNally holding. Meaningful...service. The decision in McNally v. Hill, supra, which was compelled neither by statute nor history and which constitutes an indefensible barrier to prompt adjudication of...this issue in McNally v. Hill, 293 U.S. 131 (1934), and held that the habeas corpus statute does not authorize attacks upon future...


Court: U.S. Supreme Court
Date: May 20, 1968 Cited By: 830 Coram: 1
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...dissent from that part of the order scolding the Court of Appeals majority for using the canon of construction that remedial statutes shall be liberally construed. Because the statute at issue, the Civil...Rights Act, is a remedial statute, it was appropriate for the Court of Appeals major? ty to apply the canon to...of Appeals. We note, however, that without expressly finding a section of the Michigan Civil Bights Act, MCL 37.2101 et seq., ambiguous, the Court of Appeals majority determined that the statute...


Court: Supreme Court of Michigan.
Date: Dec 27, 2007 Cited By: 0 Coram: 1
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...statute offends its remedial purpose. But a canon of statutory construction provides that the remedial nature of a statute should not defeat the plain..., 37 N.W.2d 711, 715 (1949) (stating that the remedial nature of a statute does not justify a construction that gives statutory language an unintended meaning...favorable to the party against whom judgment was granted. Id. The first refusal rights statute for family farmers provides that the immediately preceding former owner of...


Court: Minnesota Court of Appeals.
Date: Jan 7, 1997 Cited By: 1
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..., 94 L.Ed.2d 563 (1987) (recognizing the canon of statutory interpretation that remedial statutes are to be construed liberally). Although the statute authorizes...without first contesting the debt best promotes the remedial nature of the FDCPA because it preserves debtors' abilities to obtain a remedy for violations of the statute. See...debts does not render the statute's validation procedures superfluous. In sum, a pre-suit validation requirement is unfounded in the text of the statute, contrary to the remedial...


Court: United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
Date: Aug 15, 2014 Cited By: 305 Coram: 1
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.... And no, we won't “broadly construe” the Act in Sandusky's favor because it is a so-called “remedial statute.” Appellants' Br. 20–21; Reply Br. 3–4. As applied today, that canon is “either...case. The statute charges the Commission with implementing the Act and gives it “the authority to promulgate binding legal rules.” Natl Cable...interpretation regarding incidental ads). But where our “construction follows from the unambiguous terms of the statute”—as it does here—we do not defer to the agency's interpretation. See...


Court: United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.
Date: Jun 3, 2015 Cited By: 93 Coram: 1
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...Secretary's jurisdiction depend on the economic reality test fails. It subordinates the MCA to the FLSA in contravention of the statutory text; it ignores that the MCA is not a remedial statute subject to the canon of...the Secretary's jurisdiction depended on language found in the FLSA itself, the canon of construing remedial statutes narrowly would apply. See.... Solis v. Laurelbrook Sanitarium & Sch., Inc., 642 F.3d 518, 522 (6th Cir.2011). Accounting for these capacious definitions and the statute's remedial...


Court: United States District Court, E.D. Michigan, Southern Division.
Date: Jul 20, 2014 Cited By: 2 Coram: 1
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...narrow purpose. This canon of liberal construction, along with the characterization of ERISA as a comprehensive remedial statute designed to protect workers...). The District Court entered judgment against the corporation but dismissed the claim against Kracher, ruling that he was not an "employer" within the meaning of the statute...have similar definitions of employer and that both are instances of remedial social legislation serving the purpose of protecting employee compensation — FLSA in regard to workers' wages, and ERISA...


Court: United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.
Date: Sep 16, 1988 Cited By: 42 Coram: 1
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.... The first problem with the remedial-statute rule is the difficulty of determining what constitutes a remedial statute. Is any statute not remedial? Does any statute not seek to remedy an unjust or inconvenient situation? ... The other problem with the remedial-statute rule is that identifying what a "liberal construction" consists of is impossible.... The canon is...liberally applied, for it is a remedial statute intended to include not exclude."). Thus, the remedial legislation canon supports a broad interpretation of the SSA exclusion. In other...Legal Texts 364–66 (2012) (emphases in original). The canon does not help us because we face a clash between two pieces of "remedial" legislation. The first is...


Court: United States Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit.
Date: Jan 19, 2016 Cited By: 10 Coram: 1
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.... But obviously all operative parts of a remedial statute invoke the canon that such statutes are to be construed liberally to enable achievement of legislative...said that "[r]ather, we look to: the overall remedial purpose of the statute . . .; the practicalities of the situation in which government, management, and miner operate; and particularly to the...to the possibility that Phillips may ultimately control the decision in this case. But while "the overall remedial purpose of the statute...


Court: United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.
Date: Dec 17, 1974 Cited By: 10 Coram: 2
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...) 97 Cal. 135, 137-138 [31 P. 845].) However, we find significance in the fact that the federal courts also operate under a canon which provides that a remedial statute...legislative history of the statute support the division's interpretation. Section 1197.5 was passed as remedial legislation to redress violations of a worker's civil and constitutional...filing of her complaint. In combination, the language of the statute taken as a whole, prior interpretations of similarly worded antidiscrimination statutes, and the important policy promoted by the...


Court: Supreme Court of California.
Date: May 12, 1980 Cited By: 93 Coram: 2
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...Secretary's jurisdiction depend on the economic reality test fails. It subordinates the MCA to the FLSA in contravention of the statutory text; it ignores that the MCA is not a remedial statute subject to the canon of...the Secretary's jurisdiction depended on language found in the FLSA itself, the canon of construing remedial statutes narrowly would apply. See...Sanitarium & Sch., Inc., 642 F.3d 518, 522 (6th Cir.2011). Accounting for these capacious definitions and the statute's remedial purpose, the economic reality test thus sweeps broadly...


Court: United States District Court, E.D. Michigan, Southern Division.
Date: Jul 20, 2014 Cited By: 6 Coram: 1
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.... The Workers' Compensation Act, chapter 29 of title 28, is a remedial statute that should be liberally construed to effectuate this salutary purpose...Filter Systems, Inc., 707 A.2d 675, 681 (R.I. 1998)). (Emphasis added.) The Appellate Division's construction of the COLA statute clearly works against this canon of statutory construction and the...employees shall be increased as of May 10, 1991, and annually on the tenth of May after that as long as the employee remains totally incapacitated." This statute has been amended...


Court: Supreme Court of Rhode Island.
Date: May 4, 2006 Cited By: 11
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...rights. This approach to the statute is consistent with the canon of construction that remedial statutes should be liberally construed. It also eliminates the inconsistencies between purpose and...


Court: United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
Date: Apr 7, 1970 Cited By: 11 Coram: 1
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...inconsistent with those congressional objectives. The ADA is a "broad remedial statute." Penny v. United Parcel Serv., 128 F.3d 408, 414 (6th Cir. 1997). It is a "familiar canon of...interpretation of the statute would be inconsistent with the Act's broad remedial purposes was pointed out by the EEOC in its amicus brief. Under UPS's interpretation, someone who could not afford treatment for...interpretation of the ADA, and because the ADA has "provided guidance to Maine courts in interpreting the state statute," Soileau v. Guilford of Maine, Inc...


Court: United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.
Date: Feb 20, 1998 Cited By: 85 Coram: 1
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...remedial, and that there also exists a canon of statutory construction that remedial statutes are liberally construed to suppress the evil and advance the remedy..., residential real property" within the meaning of the statute, because the lots were not improved at the time the contracts were signed; 2) the...purchasers waived any right they may have had under the statute when they learned, at settlement, of the lien for deferred charges, and failed to object; 3) there was no evidence that Belleview Sewer and...


Court: Court of Appeals of Maryland.
Date: Dec 21, 1990 Cited By: 7
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...., 618 F.2d 1329, 1335 n. 7 (9th Cir. 1980)). Hjermstad's argument that a remedial statute must be broadly construed misstates the applicable canon of...statutory construction — a remedial statute must be construed broadly to effectuate its purposes. Tcherepnin v. Knight, 389 U.S...Minnesota, (2) Minnesota's Whistleblower Statute (Minn. Stat. § 181.932) and (3) the Packers and Stockyards Act ("PSA") (7 U.S.C. § 181-231), because he...


Court: United States District Court, D. Minnesota.
Date: Jul 14, 2003 Cited By: 0 Coram: 1

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