Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II, LLC · ¶37

The answer depends on how expansively to read the key statutory phrase “with respect to motor vehicles.” That inquiry is complicated because the phrase “with respect to”— like similar statutory phrases such as “related to” or “relating to”—is a somewhat elastic phrase whose breadth is determined by context. See United States v. Miller, 604 U. S. 518, 532–533 (2025); Dubin v. United States, 599 U. S. 110, 118–119 (2023); Lamar, Archer & Cofrin, LLP v. Appling, 584 U. S. 709, 717 (2018); California Div. of Labor Standards Enforcement v. Dillingham Constr., N. A., Inc., 519 U. S. 316, 335 (1997) (Scalia, J., concurring) (“But applying the `relate to' provision according to its terms was a project doomed to failure, since, as many a curbstone philosopher has observed, everything is related to everything else”).

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