Jarecki v. G.D. Searle & Company

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Jarecki v. G.D. Searle & Co., 367 U.S. 303 (1961), was a U.S. Supreme Court case. Jarecki is an example of the maxim noscitur a sociis—a word is known by the company it keeps. The Court noted that noscitur a sociis is not an inescapable rule. It further noted that the maxim is often wisely applied where a word is capable of many meanings. The reason that it is applied in the case of many meanings is that it avoids giving unintended breadth to Acts of Congress. Warning: template has been deprecated.

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367 U.S. 303

Jarecki v. G.D. Searle & Company

Argued: March 21, 22, 1961. --- Decided: June 12, 1961

No. 151:

Mr. Wayne G. Barnett, Washington, D.C., for petitioners.

Mr. Walter J. Cummings, Jr., Chicago, Ill., for respondent.

No. 169:

Mr. Isaac M. Barnett, New York City, for petitioner.

Mr. Wayne G. Barnett, Chicago, Ill., for respondent.

Mr. Chief Justice WARREN delivered the opinion of the Court.

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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).

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