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When the California Legislature includes certain statements in legislation that is ultimately enacted, I believe these ...
Accurate scrutiny should begin with precision about what the law actually says, how it functions legally, and where ...
After a California judge or justice determines there is ambiguity in a state statute, they will turn to consideration of ...
Courts and scholars are experimenting with artificial intelligence tools to help establish the ordinary meaning of words and phrases in statutes and contracts. A tone of cautious optimism—one ...
abstract. What is a textualist to do when there are two texts, each with a colorable claim to legitimacy? This question arises every time the text of a codified statute that has been enacted into ...
abstract. The dominant paradigm of statutory-interpretation scholarship is an “internalist” one. It treats statutory interpretation as a self-contained set of tools primarily deployed by lawyers and ...
October 14, 2024 - The Supreme Court's 2024 Term is teed up to be another significant one for businesses. Last Term, the Justices issued consequential decisions on a wide range of topics affecting ...
The U.S. Supreme Court ended its 2023-2024 term by upending several longstanding principles in federal agency decision-making. Most notably, the court overruled the so-called “Chevron doctrine,” which ...
Overturning the 40-year-old Chevron doctrine, the Supreme Court held that under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), courts must exercise independent judgment in deciding whether an agency has ...
August 28, 2024 - In Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, No. 22-451 (June 28, 2024), the U.S. Supreme Court overruled the Court's decades-old Chevron U. S. A. Inc ...