Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump · ¶396
In MCI Telecommunications Corp., for example, the Court refused to allow the FCC to eliminate rate regulation and fundamentally overhaul the telecommunications industry based on a “subtle” provision that merely permitted the FCC to “modify” rate-filing requirements. 512 U. S., at 231 (quotation marks omitted). In Brown & Williamson, the Court rejected the FDA's attempt to regulate the tobacco industry based on a “cryptic” statutory provision that referred to “safety.” 529 U. S., at 160 (quotation marks omitted). In Gonzales, the Court said that Congress would not have granted the Attorney General the power to regulate physician-assisted suicide through “oblique” statutory language. 546 U. S., at 267. And in West Virginia, the Court found it unlikely that Congress would have granted major power to reshape the energy industry in a “previously little- used backwater” of the statute. 597 U.…Read in context ›
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