context: In the same manner that Congress has not precluded our fashioning of a federal common law rule in this area, it has not precluded our selective incorporation of state laws into that rule to the extent that they can be applied consistently with, or in furtherance of, the underlying purposes of the NHA.
citation_a.signal: cf.
citation_a.parenthetical: where a federal regulatory scheme was not affected, court applied state landlord-tenant law in landlord's action against U.S. Postal Service
citation_a.sentence: See supra note 7; see also United States v. Standard Oil Co., 332 U.S. 301, 309, 67 S.Ct. 1604, 1609, 91 L.Ed. 2067 (1947) (in some situations “it may fairly be taken that Congress has consented to application of state law, when acting partially in relation to federal interests and functions, through failure to make other provision concerning matters ordinarily so governed”); cf. Powers v. United States Postal Service, 671 F.2d 1041 (7th Cir.1982) (where a federal regulatory scheme was not affected, court applied state landlord-tenant law in landlord’s action against U.S. Postal Service); Merrill Tenant Council v. United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, 638 F.2d 1086 (7th Cir.1981) (incorporating Illinois statute requiring landlord to pay interest on tenants’ security deposits into tenants’ leases with HUD).
citation_b.signal: see also
citation_b.parenthetical: in some situations "it may fairly be taken that Congress has consented to application of state law, when acting partially in relation to federal interests and functions, through failure to make other provision concerning matters ordinarily so governed"
citation_b.sentence: See supra note 7; see also United States v. Standard Oil Co., 332 U.S. 301, 309, 67 S.Ct. 1604, 1609, 91 L.Ed. 2067 (1947) (in some situations “it may fairly be taken that Congress has consented to application of state law, when acting partially in relation to federal interests and functions, through failure to make other provision concerning matters ordinarily so governed”); cf. Powers v. United States Postal Service, 671 F.2d 1041 (7th Cir.1982) (where a federal regulatory scheme was not affected, court applied state landlord-tenant law in landlord’s action against U.S. Postal Service); Merrill Tenant Council v. United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, 638 F.2d 1086 (7th Cir.1981) (incorporating Illinois statute requiring landlord to pay interest on tenants’ security deposits into tenants’ leases with HUD).