葛里萨对债务合同中的“平等对待”条款做出了独特的解释，认为这意味着拒绝参与早先的债务转换的“兀鹫”基金不应该获得三折偿付，而应该获得足额偿付。
Griesa idiosyncratically reinterpreted the pari passu, or equal treatment, clause in the debt contracts to mean that “vulture” funds refusing to participate in the earlier debt exchange should receive not 30 but 100 cents on the dollar.