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5 canonical passages across 4 cases, quoted by 15 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Seaboard Air Line Railway v. United States.

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1 Seaboard Air Line Railway v. United States Anchor
scotus · 1920
green “certainly congress did not intend to discourage or obstruct an orderly reorganization under the laws of the various states any more than it intended to discourage and obstruct orderly merger or consolidation of corporations under these laws.” 3
2 Delmarva Power & Light Co. v. United States
cafc · 2008
green “we see no valid reason why the government should not . . . be able to waive the anti-assignment act's prohibition in section 3727(a) against the assignment of claims.” 3
3 Kingan & Co. v. United States
cc · 1930
green “a claim is transferred to a different corporation by virtue of a merger or sale, such an event . . . does not trigger the anti-assignment act.” 3
4 National Australia Bank v. United States
uscfc · 2002
green “a claim is transferred to a different corporation by virtue of a merger or sale, such an event . . . does not trigger the anti-assignment act.” 3
5 National Australia Bank v. United States
uscfc · 2002
green “the anti-assignment act is not offended by national australia bank choosing to refrain from collapsing its 5 corporate structure and merely retaining the claim when it sold its subsidiaries” 3

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