context: Evaluating this statute is a daunting task, made all the more complicated in this case as the parties have raised a myriad of issues ranging from the legal status of the financing agreements to the propriety of Pritzker's efforts to prime the article 1425 pump. We address these issues sequentially, for the most part subjecting the district court's determinations to plenary review.
citation_a.signal: see also
citation_a.parenthetical: holding that "courts of appeals [must] review the state-law determinations of district courts de novo "
citation_a.sentence: See United States v. Gifford, 17 F.3d 462, 472 (1st Cir.1994) (holding that questions of statutory interpretation are purely legal in nature, and, thus, engender de novo review); Liberty Mut. Ins. Co. v. Commercial Union Ins. Co., 978 F.2d 750, 757 (1st Cir.1992) (same); see also Salve Regina Coll. v. Russell, 499 U.S. 225, 239-40, 111 S.Ct. 1217, 1225-26, 113 L.Ed.2d 190 (1991) (holding that “courts of appeals [must] review the state-law determinations of district courts de novo ”).
citation_b.signal: see
citation_b.identifier: 17 F.3d 462, 472
citation_b.parenthetical: holding that questions of statutory interpretation are purely legal in nature, and, thus, engender de novo review
citation_b.sentence: See United States v. Gifford, 17 F.3d 462, 472 (1st Cir.1994) (holding that questions of statutory interpretation are purely legal in nature, and, thus, engender de novo review); Liberty Mut. Ins. Co. v. Commercial Union Ins. Co., 978 F.2d 750, 757 (1st Cir.1992) (same); see also Salve Regina Coll. v. Russell, 499 U.S. 225, 239-40, 111 S.Ct. 1217, 1225-26, 113 L.Ed.2d 190 (1991) (holding that “courts of appeals [must] review the state-law determinations of district courts de novo ”).