Blashfield v. Smith

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that employee benefit plans under ERISA “cannot be considered affiliates under any ordinary or specialized understanding of that term”
• applying this rule of statutory construction to the interpretation of contracts
• applying the maxim of noscitur a sociis to interpret a clause in a lease and citing the “ancient maxim ‘noscitur a sociis [which] summarizes the rule that the meaning of words may be indicated or controlled by those words with which they are associated.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).