jan 1, 1940 - United States v. American Trucking Ass'ns (1940) [653]

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When the literal or semantic meaning of a statute was "plainly at variance with the policy of the legislation as a whole," the Court's duty was to "follow the purpose, rather than the literal words."
Introduced "purposivist" approach to statutory interpretation and creation of federal common law

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