Porto Rico Railway, Light & Power Co. v. Mor

How courts have described this case

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• noting that a prepositive or postpostive modifier of a series may apply to all of the items in that series
• noting that a prepositive or postpositive modifier of a series may apply to all of the items in that series
• finding that a clause following a series of words applies equally to all of the words in the series
• finding that the clause “not domiciled in Port Rico” applied “to the entire phrase ‘citizens or subjects of a foreign state or states, or citizens of a state, territory, or district of the United States not domiciled in Porto Rico.’”
• finding “[n]o reason” why the clause at issue “should not be read as applying to” all preceding phrases
• finding “[n]o reason” why the clause at issue “should not be read as applying to” all preceding phrases

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).