Mona Bell Azure, A/K/A Helen Marie Bell Azure v. Rogers C. B. Morton, Secretary of the Interior

How courts have described this case

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• finding that “use of a dis- junctive in a statute indicates alternatives and requires that they be treated separately”
• explaining that “the use of a disjunctive in a statute indicates alternatives and requires that they be treated separately”
• “As a general rule, the use of a disjunctive in a statute indicates alternatives and requires that they be treated separately.”
• “As a general rule, the use of a disjunctive in a statute indicates alternatives and requires that they be treated sepa- rately.”
• Azure states the “doctrine of the last antecedent”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).