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Rainmaker, that was my thought on the issue for situation 1. If this is a one-handed pass (where he did not end his dribble first), he can recover the ball off of the official and continue the dribble. If he recovers the ball off of the official by grasping it, that would effectively end his dribble and he cannot dribble again. If he recovers the ball by pushing it back to the floor there is no violation.