United States v. Maryland Bank & Trust Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a security interest existing solely as the result of a loan vesting the interest holder with an indicia of ownership was not a basis for CERCLA liability
• applying rule to CERCLA secured creditor exemption and citing United States v. First City Nat'l Bank of Houston, 386 U.S. 361, 366, 87 S.Ct. 1088, 1092, 18 L.Ed.2d 151 (1967) (applying rule in banking law context)
• “Proper usage dictates that the phrase ‘the owner and operator’ include only those persons who are both owners and operators. But by no means does Congress always follow the rules of grammar when enacting the laws of this nation.”
• secured creditor exemption should be construed narrowly
• secured creditor exemption should be construed narrowly

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).