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Pierce v. Underwood
487 U.S. 552 (1988) Cited 9,305 times 10 Legal Analyses
Holding that when Congress reenacts a statute without changing its language, and when there is no indication that “Congress thought it was doing anything ... except reenacting and making permanent” the earlier legislation, a court should not give weight to legislative history pertaining to the reenactment
Welter v. Sullivan
941 F.2d 674 (8th Cir. 1991) Cited 127 times
Holding that district court order remanding actions because Secretary committed legal and factual errors did not constitute final "`judgment . . . modifying or reversing the decision of the Secretary'" because district court "retained jurisdiction of the claimants' cases and planned to enter dispositive sentence four judgments after the Secretary reevaluated the claimants' applications for benefits"
Wyandotte Sav. Bank v. N.L.R.B
682 F.2d 119 (6th Cir. 1982) Cited 41 times
Holding that the NLRB was "substantially justified" in seeking the overruling of a controlling, ten-year-old Sixth Circuit precedent (which had been rejected by two other circuits), reasoning that "the position taken by the Board was a reasonable attempt to reopen a closed question"