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Statutory Interpretation
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Legal Writing Prof Blog
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By legalwriting
If you're looking for some statutes that might get your students' attention while discussing statutory construction, check out the Dumb Laws website. It inclues many anachronistic or plain old peculiar…
Sui Generis--a New York law blog
Certified Questions August 23, 2008 The Second Circuit recently certified
By Niki Black
Certified Questions August 23, 2008 The Second Circuit recently certified a number of questions to the New York Court of Appeals. First, in Amalfitano v. Rosenberg, Docket No. 06-2364-cv, the…
Drug & Device Law
Stop Us If You’ve Heard This Story Before (More On Pre-Service Removals)
By Bexis
On the one hand, there's the plain language of the statute. On the other hand, some courts think that a literal reading of the statute would yield "a bizarre result"…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Comments Appreciated
By Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
For those interested, I've posted a revised draft on SSRN of my most recent article: It's Just Not Worth Searching for Welcome Mats with a Kaleidoscope and a Broken Compass. …
Drug & Device Law
Shocking Ruling From The Seventh Circuit: “Less” Doesn’t Mean “More”
By Bexis
This guest post was written by Sean Costello. Mr. Costello is an associate resident in the Atlanta office of Jones Day. This post is entirely his work. It, of course,…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
New Redish article on construing The Rules Enabling Act
By Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Prof. Martin Redish and Dennis Murasko recently posted The Rules Enabling Act and the Procedural-Substantive Tension: A Lesson in Statutory Interpretation. The article will appear in Volume 93 of the…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Terrific analysis of Justices’ wacka ACCA work
Main May 5, 2008Terrific analysis of Justices' wacka ACCA workWriting over at CO, Anita Krishnakumar has this fantastic new post, titled "Dejá-Vu in Begay v. United States," examining the struggles…
The Trademark Blog
Oregon v Justia re Oregon Statutes con’t
Boing Boing: "Archivists to Oregon: your laws aren't copyrighted, so there!"
The Trademark Blog
Oregon v Justia re Oregon Statutes
Justia makes various legal materials available. I'm able to provide trademark complaints because of the useful RSS Feed Justia makes available. Justia has received a demand letter from the state…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Early thoughts onBegayandBurgess
Main April 16, 2008Early thoughts on Begay and BurgessThough the Supreme Court's Baze lethal injection decision will surely be the focus of SCOTUS discussion today (early coverage here and here…