Torres v. Attorney General of the United States

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• applying the narrow understanding of personal injury to the phrase “personal injury tort or wrongful death” as used in 28 U.S.C. § 157(b)(2)(B)
• applying noscitur a sociis only after finding that a statutory phrase was ambiguous
• \Second Circuit law governs the interpretations of federal law even when the case is transferred from a court sitting in another circuit.\
• “the Court concludes that the “personal injury tort” exception to core jurisdiction set forth at 28 U.S.C. § 157(b)(2)(B) is limited to claims involving bodily injury, physical trauma and/or a severe “psychiatric impairment beyond mere shame and humiliation….”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).