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Section 1639

Citation
Section 1639
Parent Document
Tippett v. Daly, 10 A.3d 1123 (2010)
Jurisdiction
DC (municipal)
Effective Date
2010-12-30
Original Source
https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2551230/tippett-v-daly/ ↗

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[17] This statutory rule, "as is true of any guide to statutory construction, only serves as an aid for resolving an ambiguity; it is not to be used to beget one." Callanan v. United States, 364 U.S. 587, 596, 81 S.Ct. 321, 5 L.Ed.2d 312 (1961) (commenting on the rule of lenity applied in criminal cases). It "comes into operation at the end of the process of construing what [the Council] has expressed, not at the beginning as an overriding consideration of being lenient to [tenants]." Id.