Below, Harvard Law School’s Leif Overvold recaps Tuesday’s oral argument in United States v. O’Brien and Burgess. Leif’s earlier preview of the case is available here. For more information, check the ...
The following is a series of questions posed by Ronald Collins on the occasion of the publication of Judging Statutes (Oxford University Press), by Chief Judge Robert Katzmann of the U.S. Court of ...
On December 13, 2012, Judge Vincent L. Briccetti from the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York denied the appellant Notes Trustee’s request to compel payment of an ...
"So what do we know about RICO's purpose?" asks columnist Randy D. Gordon as he offers his take on the legislative history and evolution of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. Last ...
On March 26, the Supreme Court ruled that the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (“ATF”) may regulate gun assembly kits as “firearms.” The court’s decision shows how judges ...
Here's a quotation from Richard Rorty about context, and the last two sentences are instructive for legal interpretation. It is impossible to read a text without a context. Instead of even trying to, ...
One puzzlement about statutory interpretation is that so many statutory canons run contrary to likely legislative preferences, sound policy, or even the judicial self-interest in avoiding being ...
On Friday, May 19, 2017, a federal appellate court struck down an integral part of the FAA’s attempt to safely monitor and integrate small unmanned aerial systems (“sUAS”) into the national airspace.
The Patna High Court recently held that 'public interest' under Rule 12A(3) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Rules, 2021 ...
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