The interpretation of statutes is so often decisive in cases of national importance, which touch all our lives. Specifically, I want to talk with you about how courts are relinquishing the power to ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. Pereira v. Sessions is not the immigration case that everyone will be watching this month, but it is definitely worth a glance ...

Thomas R. Newman and Steven J. Ahmuty Jr. Unlike the relatively straightforward de novo standard of review of the legal determinations of a court, judicial review of an administrative agency's legal ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. Eight justices sided with Wescley Fonseca Pereira in his argument that a government-issued document notifying him of the ...

"There is no statute of limitations barring originality in statutory construction, and it may be possible that the plain meaning of § 7-433c has been hiding in plain sight for the past seventy years," ...

On June 28, 2024, in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, the U.S. Supreme Court overruled Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., which for 40 years required court deference ...

Following recent rulings from the U.S. Supreme Court, Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe signed legislation to limit state agency's authority in interpreting rules and regulations. Senate Bill 221, sponsored by ...

INTERPRETING what someone else has written is no mean job especially when the writer and the interpreter have no common meeting point but that is exactly what law courts do every day. Justices, judges ...

The analysis outlined in this paper shows how the Supreme Court involves itself in philosophical abstraction in the interpretation and construction of statutes. The cases also show that the Supreme ...

In society’s fight against crime, police and prosecutors are the tip of the spear. They identify the culprits, collect the evidence, and present it to a judge and jury. The American criminal justice ...