Courts are apt to err by sticking too closely to the words of a law where those words import a policy that goes beyond them. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)

Courts are apt to err by sticking too closely to the words of a law where those words import a policy that goes beyond them.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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