092006P.pdf   05/14/2010  Public Water Supply District  v.  City of Lebanon
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  09-2006
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Springfield   
   [PUBLISHED] [Gruender, Author, with Shepherd, Circuit Judge, and
   Jarvey, District Judge]
   Civil case - Rural water districts. The plain language of 7 U.S.C. Sec.
   1926(b), the rule in favor of giving effect to all terms in a statute, and 
   the court's analysis of the statute's purpose all confirm that the City of
   Lebanon did not violate the statute by continuing to provide services to
   those customers it began serving before the Water District obtained its
   USDA loan; because the language of the statute supports the conclusion
   that the protection of the statute should be limited to the financed service,
   here, sewer service, the district court's grant of summary judgment to the
   city concerning water services is affirmed; case remanded for further
   consideration regarding the water district's physical ability to serve
   customers in a development project; water district's claims rejected as to
   other customers.