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OPINION AND ORDER: State v. 13th Judicial District
The Montana Supreme Court has issued an Opinion and Order in the following matter: OP 09-0168, 2009 MT 163, STATE OF MONTANA, Petitioner, v. THIRTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT THE HONORABLE SUSAN P. W… more →
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"Statutory Interpretation in the Age of Grammatical Permissiveness: An Object Lesson for Teaching Why Grammar Matters"
wrote 2 days ago: “Statutory Interpretation in the Age of Grammatical Permissiveness: An Object Lesson for Teach … more →
Levmore on Ambiguous Statutes
wrote 2 weeks ago: Dean Saul Levmore of the University of Chicago Law School has published Ambiguous Statutes. Here is … more →
5th Circuit Applies Medellín, Finds State Law Preempted by Treaty
wrote 1 month ago: The 5th Circuit, sitting en banc, has held that a U.S. treaty, implemented through an act of Congres … more →
Busy
wrote 1 month ago: Hey all… been a little busy over the last week or so. Completing a Statutory Interpretation as … more →
Batista & Cornock on How Difficulties Interpreting Data Protection Laws Inhibit Public Access to Government Information
wrote 2 months ago: Dr. Luciano Batista & Dr. Marc Cornock, both lecturers at The Open University Business School, h … more →
WA Legal Roundup: Division III
wrote 2 months ago: State v. Ramos After reading the facts of this case, I really, really didn’t want to give thi … more →
Court-Watching: Johnson v. United States
wrote 3 months ago: I had the opportunity to sit in on the second oral argument that the Supreme Court heard this Tuesda … more →
A dead law
wrote 3 months ago: There are always dead laws on the books. Here’s one, 22 USC § 262: The Executive shall not ex … more →
Nuanced change comes to Washington
wrote 3 months ago: The New York Times reported on Tuesday that DoJ’s Office of Legal Counsel has advised Pres. Ob … more →
Statutory interpretation: is “shall” mandatory or discretionary?
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wrote 3 months ago: Of course, everyone’s first guess is, mandatory. But, in his Legal Writing in Plain English, … more →
Yet another Hawaii standards of review compendium
wrote 4 months ago: This one comes to us from Sierra Club v. Dep’t of Transportation of Hawaii, No. 29035, slip op … more →
Here's a statutory interpretation standard with a due process/equal protection twist
wrote 4 months ago: From Peroutka v. Cronin, 179 P.3d 1050, 1053 (Haw. 2008), in which Appellants Ralph Nader, et. al. u … more →
Statutory interpretation
wrote 4 months ago: Here’s some boilerplate case law analysis regarding statutory interpretation. This example is … more →
Birthplace as "Israel" raises political question
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wrote 5 months ago: Last week, the D.C. Circuit ruled that, despite a statute requiring it, the State Department could n … more →
Case Report - Ontario's top court affirms order granting compelled observation of surgery
wrote 6 months ago: Today, the Ontario Court of Appeal held that investigators appointed under the Ontario Health Profes … more →
Statute v. treaty, Part 2
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wrote 7 months ago: In a previous post, I posed the question, “To what extent does the Executive Branch’s interpre … more →
Statute v. treaty: which interpretation controls?
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wrote 7 months ago: To what extent does the Executive Branch’s interpretation of a treaty control its interpretation of … more →
OPINION AND ORDER: State v. 13th Judicial District
wrote 7 months ago: The Montana Supreme Court has issued an Opinion and Order in the following matter: OP 09-0168, 2009 … more →
OPINION: Heth v. Mont. State Fund
wrote 8 months ago: The Montana Supreme Court has issued an Opinion in the following matter: DA 08-0285, 2009 MT 149, MA … more →
