“A statute is not to be read over literally.... [A]cts of Congress must be interpreted in light of the spirit in which they were written and the reasons for their enactment.”
How later courts described this case
- “A statute is not to be read over literally.... [A]cts of Congress must be interpreted in light of the spirit in which they were written and the reasons for their enactment.”
- court looked at parallel structure of statute to determine its meaning
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
J. SKELLY WRIGHT,
Circuit Judge, dissenting:
I respectfully dissent, for the reasons stated by then Chairman (now Member) Murphy and then Member (now Chairman) Fanning of the National Labor Relations Board. See General Service Employees Union Local No. 73, 224 NLRB 434 , 437-440 (1976).