context: Section 192(a) prohibits "unfair, unjustly discriminatory, or deceptive" practices or devices. Section 192(b) prohibits "undue or unreasonable" preferences, advantages, or disadvantages. Neither section contains language limiting its application to only those acts or devices, which have an adverse effect on competition, such as "restraining commerce." Under well-settled principles, courts must refrain from reading additional terms, such as those that would require an adverse effect on competition, into these sections.
citation_a.signal: see
citation_a.parenthetical: holding that if the text evinces "a plain, nonabsurd meaning" then the court should not "read an absent word into the statute"
citation_a.sentence: See Lamie, 540 U.S. at 538, 124 S.Ct. 1023 (holding that if the text evinces “a plain, nonabsurd meaning” then the court should not “read an absent word into the statute”); see also Bates v. United States, 522 U.S. 23, 29, 118 S.Ct. 285, 139 L.Ed.2d 215 (1997) (holding that courts “ordinarily” should “resist reading words or elements into a statute that do not appear on its face”).
citation_b.signal: see also
citation_b.parenthetical: holding that courts "ordinarily" should "resist reading words or elements into a statute that do not appear on its face"
citation_b.sentence: See Lamie, 540 U.S. at 538, 124 S.Ct. 1023 (holding that if the text evinces “a plain, nonabsurd meaning” then the court should not “read an absent word into the statute”); see also Bates v. United States, 522 U.S. 23, 29, 118 S.Ct. 285, 139 L.Ed.2d 215 (1997) (holding that courts “ordinarily” should “resist reading words or elements into a statute that do not appear on its face”).