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Quotation from Transamerica Mortgage Advisors, Inc. v. Lewis by Supreme Court of the United States
“Yet it is an elemental canon of statutory construction that where a statute expressly provides a particular remedy or remedies, a court must be chary of reading others into it.”
Transamerica Mortgage Advisors, Inc. v. Lewis, Opinion of the Court (Justice Stewart) (U.S. Reports text (Legal Information Institute))
Justice Stewart declines to imply a damages action under Section 206.
Citation: "Yet it is an elemental canon of statutory construction that where a statute expressly provides a particular remedy or remedies, a court must be chary of reading others into it." — Supreme Court of the United States, Transamerica Mortgage Advisors, Inc. v. Lewis, Opinion of the Court (Justice Stewart) (U.S. Reports text (Legal Information Institute)). (id transamerica-mortgage-advisors-v-lewis-q3)
Portrait: US Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart - 1976 official portrait, Robert S. Oakes, Public domain.
