The following excerpt is from United States v. Wanland, 830 F.3d 947 (9th Cir. 2016):
applies ... where there is a grievous ambiguity or uncertainty in the language and structure of the statute, such that even after a court has seized every thing from which aid can be derived, it is still left with an ambiguous statute. Id. at 572 (quoting United States v. Carona , 660 F.3d 360, 369 (9th Cir. 2011) ).
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