Federal Communications Commission v. Airadigm Communications, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• “‘We will not bend the language of a contract to create an ambiguity . . . .’”
• The character of a claim “focuses on the underlying substance of the disputed transaction . . . .”
• “[WJhen a claim is equitably subordinated, a court disregards a party’s formal rights; when a claim is recharacterized, a court determines what those formal rights are in the first instance.”
• “[W]hen a claim is equitably subordinated, a court disregards a party’s formal rights; when a claim is recharacterized, a court determines what those formal rights are in the first instance.”
• “Recharacterization is a theory, adopted by the overwhelming majority of courts to have considered the question, that bankruptcy courts may place the proper label of ‘claim’ (generally, debt) or ‘interest’ (equity
• “‘We will not bend the language of a contract to create an ambiguity where none exists, but neither will we follow a literal interpretation when to do so would lead to an unreasonable or absurd result.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).