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Statutory Interpretation
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Last Month at the Supreme Court
Decision Alert: Supreme Court Rejects Equitable Tolling to Extend 30-Day Deadline to Remove to Federal Court
By Chantel Febus, James Azadian, Andrew T. VanEgmond, Sadie Betting
The Supreme Court recently decided Enbridge Energy, LP v. Nessel (No. 24-783), holding that the equitable tolling doctrine cannot be invoked to extend the 30-day deadline for removing a case…
Stafford Rosenbaum Law Blog
Update: Wisconsin Supreme Court Grants Petition for Review that Asks Court to Reevaluate Its Approach to Statutory Interpretation
On June 16, 2026, the Wisconsin Supreme Court voted 6-1 to grant review in Abby Windows, LLC v. LIRC, 2024AP001013. The Court’s order scheduled briefing in the case to begin…
Verfassungsblog
Constitutional Disobedience by Statute
By Simon Butt
Over its 23-year history, the Indonesian Constitutional Court has read down or invalidated provisions of Indonesia’s colonial-era Criminal Code (KUHP) of 1918 and authoritarian-era Criminal Procedure Code (KUHAP) of 1981.…
Legal History Blog
Mortenson on Text and Purpose in Anglo-American Law
By Dan Ernst
Julian Davis Mortenson, University of Michigan Law School, has posted “Westminster Quibbles”: The Antinomy of Text and Purpose in Eighteenth-Century Anglo-American Legal Culture, which is forthcoming in the Journal of…
Legal History Blog
Peterson on Text and "the Founding"
By Dan Ernst
Farah Peterson, University of Chicago Law School, has posted The Limits of Text, which is forthcoming in the Yale Law Journal:Let’s say the “laws” are the rules that actually constrain power,…
Philadelphia Criminal Defense Blog
PA Superior Court Continues Eliminating Strunk’s Limits on the Unlawful Contact With a Minor Statute
Philadelphia Criminal Defense Lawyer Zak T. Goldstein, Esquire The Pennsylvania Superior Court has decided the case of Commonwealth v. Smith, 2026 PA Super 69, affirming two convictions for unlawful contact…
Legal History Blog
Zhang on Statutory Interpretation and the Constitution
By Dan Ernst
Alexander Zhang, University of Texas School of Law, has posted Directly Constitutional Statutory Interpretation, which is forthcoming in the NYU Law Review:The last half century of American statutory interpretation theory…
delaJusticia.com
La impunidad de los Preámbulos de los reglamentos
By JR Chaves
Hoy día el legislador suele sobrecargar el Preámbulo de las leyes a modo de amable justificación de la regulación o de propaganda de las bondades del gobierno que sostiene la…
MGKF Litigation Blog
Supreme Court Broadly Interprets “relating to” in Federal Officer Removal Statute
By MGKF
Supreme Court Broadly Interprets “relating to” in Federal Officer Removal Statute Earlier this month in Chevron USA Inc. v. Plaquemines Parish, the U.S. Supreme Court broadly interpreted the meaning of…
The Florida Bar News Releases
Law vs. Legislative Intent
By Susan Ray
Overview In part three of the Strategic Advocacy Across Courts, Agencies, and the Legislature CLE series, Viletta Coombs and Bradley Butler Jr. focus on identifying gaps between statutory intent and…