The following excerpt is from Taylor v. Director of Workers Compensation, 201 F.3d 1234 (9th Cir. 2000):
We begin our inquiry into the meaning of S 33(f)'s "person entitled to compensation" with an examination of the language of the statute. See Moskal v. United States, 498 U.S. 103, 108 (1990). As we recognized in Cretan, [t]he term "person entitled to compensation" must receive the same construction in sections 33(f) and 33(g), in accord with "the basic canon of statutory construction that identical terms within an Act bear the same meaning."
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