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Statutory Interpretation
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Appellate Advocacy Blog
Justice Gorsuch’s first Supreme Court opinion is unanimous
This week, the newest justice on the United States Supreme Court issued his first authored opinion, Henson v. Santander Consumer USA Inc. The topic was debt collection, perhaps not a…
PrawfsBlawg
SCOTUS OT16 Symposium: The Code and the Law
Main Sunday, June 04, 2017SCOTUS OT16 Symposium: The Code and the LawMy last post promised a few quibbles with the Court's opinion in BNSF. Here's one: the Court misdescribes the…
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Ambiguity — the most ambiguous concept in the law of interpretation
Main Tuesday, May 30, 2017Ambiguity -- the most ambiguous concept in the law of interpretationEsquivel-Quintana, the decision handed down this morning by SCOTUS, provides a good example of what I…
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SCOTUS Symposium: Thoughts on Esquivel-Quintana v. Sessions
Main Tuesday, May 30, 2017SCOTUS Symposium: Thoughts on Esquivel-Quintana v. SessionsThe Supreme Court issued four opinions today. One of those opinions, Esquivel-Quintana v. Sessions, involves what seems like a relatively…
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SCOTUS OT Symposium: Anticipating Which Canon Will Fire First in Esquivel-Quintana
Main Tuesday, May 30, 2017SCOTUS OT Symposium: Anticipating Which Canon Will Fire First in Esquivel-Quintana Responding to Howard's call to identify our most anticipated cases from SCOTUS, I cannot decide…
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Notes on Monday’s SCOTUS arguments
Main Tuesday, April 18, 2017Notes on Monday's SCOTUS argumentsI covered two of yesterday's arguments for SCOTUSBlog--in Perry v. MSPB (considering where review is had for MSPB decisions) and Town of…
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Sponsored Post: Contract Interpretation (in the Real World)
Main Thursday, April 13, 2017Sponsored Post: Contract Interpretation (in the Real World)The following post is by Lawrence Cunningham (George Washington) and former GuestPrawf Miriam A. Cherry (SLU), and is sponsored…
The Faculty Lounge
“For want of a comma, we have this case.”
I am a big fan of the Oxford comma, so I zeroed in on this case. In O'Connor v. Oakhurst Dairy, the United States Court of Appeals for the First…
ContractsProf Blog
The Oxford Comma is (Still) Important
In case you have not yet heard about the recent First Circuit Court of Appeals case discussing the legal importance of a comma, here goes: A Maine statute lists the…
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Legislative Underwrites
Main Friday, March 17, 2017Legislative UnderwritesMy newest paper with Jim Brudney on when legislatures undertake to endorse rather than reject statutory interpretation decisions in the courts is now available for…