How have courts interpreted punctuation in a section of the Civil Code?
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The following excerpt is from Louisiana-Pacific Corp. v. Beazer Materials & Services, 811 F. Supp. 1421 (E.D. Cal. 1993):
12 Even if the punctuation creates an ambiguity, I am bound to construe the statute according to its natural reading. See Gwaltney v. Chesapeake Bay Found., 484 U.S. 49, 57, 108 S.Ct. 376, 380-81, 98 L.Ed.2d 306 (1987) ("to acknowledge ambiguity is not to conclude that all interpretations are equally plausible, rather, the court is to prefer the natural reading").
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