Levorsen v. Octapharma Plasma, Inc.

MORITZ, Circuit Judge.

Some statutes are so “enigmatic” that we must resort to diagraming their clauses in an effort to discern their meanings. See, e.g., United States v. Rentz, 777 F.3d 1105, 1106, 1109 (10th Cir. 2015) (parsing 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(l)(A)’s “bramble of prepositional phrases”). Others are so abstruse that we must employ canons of statutory interpretation to define their terms. See, e.g., United States v. Brune, 767 F.3d 1009, 1022-23 (10th Cir. 2014), cert. denied, — U.S. -, 135 S.Ct. 1469, 191 L.Ed.2d 414 (2015) (applying canon of ejusdem generis to 18 U.S.C. §…