Barnhart v. Thomas

How courts have described this case

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• illustrating that “antecedent” for purposes of the rule means the immediately adjacent “noun or phrase”
• explaining that the doctrine applies to \limiting clause[s] or phrase[s]\ that are \read as modifying only the noun or phrase that [they] immediately follow[ ]\
• stating that the rule of the last antecedent “is not absolute and can assuredly be overcome by other indicia of meaning”
• stating that the rule of the last antecedent \is not absolute and can assuredly be overcome by other indicia of meaning\
• noting that the rule of the last antecedent “can assuredly be overcome by other indi-cia of meaning”
• observing that under the grammatical “rule of the last antecedent,” any limiting clause or phrase should be read as modifying only the noun or phrase that it immediately follows

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).