Chandler-McPhail v. Duffey

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• holding that the last antecedent rule applies only “in the absence of a contrary intention”
• as a canon of statutory construction, referential and qualifying words and phrases refer to the clause immediately preceding them unless there is a contrary intention
• absent a contrary intention, the last antecedent rule dictates that referential and qualifying words and phrases refer exclusively to the clause immediately preceding them
• finding “structure” relevant to assessing third-party beneficiary status

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).