Barnhart v. Thomas¶
States, S. C. o. t. U. (2003). Barnhart v. Thomas.
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- The kind of scope question it adjudicates is captured by the rule of the last antecedent, a canon under which a qualifying phrase attaches to the nearest antecedent unless context says otherwise.
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