The COVID Project
The record
- Level
- Legal authority
- Authority
- EEOC v. Abercrombie & Fitch Stores, Inc., 575 U.S. 768 (2015)
- Issued
- 2015-06-01 June 1, 2015
- In force
- June 1, 2015 (no end date recorded; counted as in force for 120 days)
- Character
- case
Operative words
The problem with this approach is the one that inheres in most incorrect interpretations of statutes: It asks us to add words to the law to produce what is thought to be a desirable result. That is Congress's province.
Notes
Tri-State at 19 applies Abercrombie to the United States' 'proximate, independent and sufficient cause' formulation: 'Defendant's interpretation improperly adds words into the statute.'