Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

McKinney v. Kelley

356 U.S. 972

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1958-06-02
Topic
general

How later courts describe this case

  • holding that “and” was disjunctive in the context of a statute that required an employer to pay overtime wages to employees “engaged in the ginning and compressing of cotton”
  • interpreting the phrase "ginning and compressing of cotton” to mean "the performance of either or both”
  • “the word ‘and’ is not a word with a single meaning, for chameleonlike, it takes its color from its surroundings”

Citator

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Supreme Court of Vermont. Certiorari denied.