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· 4/22/1998

East Cambridge Savings Bank v. Silveira (In Re Silveira)

Citations

  • 141 F.3d 34
  • 1998 WL 175119

How courts have described this case

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  • “If Congress intended for [the statute at issue] to be an ‘all-or-nothing’ matter, one might wonder why the provisions’ drafters chose to use the connective phrase ‘to the extent that,’ in lieu of the word ‘if,’ which obviously would have been a simpler construction.”
  • “If Congress intended for [the statute at issue] to be an ‘all-or-nothing’ matter, one might wonder why the provisions’ drafters chose to use the connective phrase ‘to the extent that,’ in lieu of the word ‘if,’ which obviously would have been a simpler construction.”

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Judges: Torruella, Selya, Stahl

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