The Rio Grande, El Paso and Santa Fe Railroad Company and Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company v. Department of Energy

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• holding that a court should not recharacterize a prisoner’s pro se filing 6 as a federal § 2255 habeas petition when doing so would be to the prisoner’s disadvantage
• A party may not “collaterally attack [a] settlement’s ability to provide full compensation for ... alleged injuries without showing that the settlement was not a valid, binding contract.”
• “We also give substantial deference to [DOE] OHA’s interpretation of the statutes it is charged with administering, and its interpretation of the implementing regulations DOE has promulgated[.]” (citing cases)
• “Because we review the agency action on the identical basis as did the district court, no particular deference is accorded to the conclusions of the district court.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “[a] contract need not specifically reference installments to be deemed an installment contract”
• applying Massachusetts l a w

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