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 ...

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 ...

"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," ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. Chief Judge Robert A. Katzmann The following is a series of questions posed by Ronald Collins on the occasion of the ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. When the Supreme Court takes up the Affordable Care Act again on March 4, the fate of President Obama’s health-care law will ...

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 ...

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 ...

Is forty years too far along for a book review? Another look at A Common Law for the Age of Statutes by eminent Second Circuit Judge and Yale Law professor Guido Calabresi suggests no. Published in ...