...288, 346-48 (Brandéis, J., concurring) ("[I]fa serious doubt of constitutionality is raised, . . . this court will first ascertain whether a construction...possible by which the question may be avoided."); Schneider v. Smith, 390 US (1968), p. 17 (Act delegating executive officials authority to safeguard...

...463. was the "cardinal principle" that where "a serious doubt of constitutionality is raised, ... the Court will first ascertain whether a construction...fairly possible by which the question may be avoided . " U . at 465-66. Here, to achieve a similar end, we are asked only to stretch the phrase "officer...

...Finally, the Court would not pass upon the constitutionality of a statute without first ascertaining "whether a construction of the statute is fairly possible by which the question may be avoided." 40 Those rules of judicial restraint appealed to Brandéis for a variety of reasons. First, they conformed...

...Court, 331 US 549 (1947), 569; constitutional issues affecting legislation will not be determined .., if a construction of the statute is fairly possible by which the question may be avoided." Vgl. a. schon das Sondervotum von Justice Brandeis in Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority, 297...

...post, p. 464; Doe v. Bolton, 410 US 179 (1973); Roe v. Wade, 410 US 113 (1973). Since the Court should "first ascertain whether a construction of the statute is fairly possible by which the [constitutional] question may be avoided," Ashwander v. TVA, 297 US 288, 341, 348 (1936) (Brandeis,...

...validity of an act of the Congress is drawn in question, and even if a serious doubt of constitutionality is raised, it is a cardinal principle that this Court...question may be avoided" Crowell v. Benson, 285 US 22, 62 (1932). 14 In Federal Communications Commission v. Paciflca Foundation, 438 US 726, 749-750 ( 1 978),...

...validity of an act of the Congress is drawn in question, and even if a serious doubt of constitutionality is raised, it is a cardinal principle that this Court...statute is fairly possible by which the question may be avoided.126 It conveniently enables the Court to concurrently disregard plain meaning and intent in...

...validity of an act of Congress is drawn in question, and even if a serious doubt of constitutionality is raised, it is a cardinal principle that this Court will first ascertain whether a construction of a statute is fairly possible by which the question may be avoided." 167 When the Supreme Court interprets...

...validity of an act of the Congress is drawn in question, and even if a serious doubt of constitutionality is raised, it is a cardinal principle that this Court...may be avoided." Crowell v. Benson, 285 US 22, 62 (1932). In Federal Communications Commission v. Pacifica Foundation, 438 US 726, 749-750 (1978), the...

...validity of an Act of Congress is drawn in question, and even if serious doubt of constitutionality is raised, it is a cardinal principle that this Court...fairly possible by which the question may be avoided. 65 BVerfGE 1 no. 27, Parlementarische Geschciftsordnung, 1952. 66 See Schwarze, European Administrative...