First National Bank v. Woods (In Re Woods)

How courts have described this case

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• applying “de novo review here to the bankruptcy court’s tacit legal assessment of the statutory requirements” of the relevant statute
• declining to rest analysis on the rule because “the phrase as found in the [principal-residence-debt] exception has a different—in some respects more narrow—point of focus than the phrase as found in the [fifty-percent-farm-debt] rule”
• declining to rest analysis on the rule because “the phrase as found in the [principal-residence-debt] exception has a different—in some respects more narrow—point of focus than the phrase as found in the [fifty-percent-farm-debt] rule”
• “Flowing from this interpretive principle — that we must construe exceptions narrowly — is the related concept that exceptions must not be interpreted so broadly as to swallow the rule.”
• discussing “the statute’s structure—setting forth a baseline rule and an exception”
• “We begin our analysis by examining the subsection’s structure, as the meaning of statutory language, plain or not, depends on context.” (quotation cleaned up)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).