Regions Bank v. The Provident Bank, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that Article 4A did not preempt common law claims when the UCC was \silent\ as to the factual scenario alleged
• holding that Article 4A did not preempt common law claim when the UCC was “silent” as to the factual scenario alleged
• holding that the bank would have acted outside of Article 4A’s scope if it accepted funds through a wire transfer that the bank knew or should have known were obtained illegally
• holding that the Florida Uniform Commercial Code “does not preempt a state law claim if money is transferred by wire to a party that knows or should have known that the funds were obtained illegally”
• finding that Article 4A preempted plaintiffs negligence claim, but withholding judgment on whether Article 4A preempts negligence claims in all cases
• stating that a court should avoid construing a statute in a way that produces absurd results

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).