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Statutory Interpretation
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ImmigrationProf Blog
Argument recap: Another immigration case? Another argument about statutory interpretation and agency deference
Yesterday, the Court heard oral arguments in Mayorkas v. Cuellar de Osorio, a case raising a technical issue of statutory construction of the complex U.S. immigration laws. The specific question…
Civil Rights Law & Policy Blog
Hiding the Statute in Plain View: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center v. Nassar
The title of this post comes from this recent article arguing the Supreme Court's recent decision in University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center v. Nassar used an approach to statutory interpretation…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Corbett on Following the UK’s Lead in Reforming Employment Discrimination Law
Bill Corbett's (LSU) essay, "Calling on Congress: Take a Page from Parliament's Playbook and Fix Employment Discrimination Law," was recently published in Vanderbilt En Banc. From the introduction: The Supreme Court rendered…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Take That, You Tax Types (aka Labor Day Factoid)
Don't ask me why I was reading (OK, skimming) an SSRN piece entitled Measuring the Complexity of the United States Code, but it had 400+ other downloads, so I wasn't the…
Legal Writing Prof Blog
zany novel = legal writing?
If the premise of a novel revolves around an unusual legal problem created by a particular statute, is it legal writing? It's writing, and it's about a legal topic. And…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Does use of a thermal lance tool amount to using “fire” to trigger major mandatory sentence enhancement?
Main August 29, 2013Does use of a thermal lance tool amount to using "fire" to trigger major mandatory sentence enhancement?The question in the title of this post is the question…
The Appellate Strategist
Reading Law: An Indispensable Treatise
By Vance Wittie
In 2012, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and legal writing expert, Bryan Garner, published Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts. According to its authors, the purpose of the book…
Education Law Prof Blog
Recent scholarship
DavidAronofsky (Montana) and Sam Schmitt (Montana 3L), The Chicago Tribune v. TheUniversity Of Illinois: The Latest Iteration of New Textualist Interpretation ofFERPA by the Federal Courts, 39 J.C. & U.L.…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
First Circuit Holds That 18 U.S.C. Section 666 Doesn’t Criminalize Gratuities
By Ellen Podgor
by: Solomon L. WisenbergThe mark of the beast is fading a little, at least in the First Circuit. Amidst the hubbub of the Supreme Court's Wednesday rulings, the First Circuit quietly…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Top 10 in Law Blogs: LXBN February 20, 2013
It was a big day for Supreme Court analysis on the LexBlog Network. Not only we do we have a couple posts in the roundup, but Kevin Goldberg joins us…