Court Opinion

ID: 9489282
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 13:11:09.170388+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:53:26.494725
License: Public Domain

PORFILIO, Circuit Judge,
dissenting.
I join the dissent of Chief Judge Seymour in all respects. Because I believe the majority has effectively reduced the precept of following the plain language of legislation to a mere shibolith, I write only to remind the court of the wise admonition of Learned Hand that “one of the surest indexes of a mature judiciary [is] not to make a fortress out of the dictionary; but to remember that statutes always have some purpose or object to accomplish, whose sympathetic and imaginative discovery is the surest guide to their meaning.” Cabell v. Markham, 148 F.2d 737, 739 (2nd Cir.), aff'd. 326 U.S. 404, 66 S.Ct. 193, 90 L.Ed. 165 (1945).