The interpretation of statutes is so often decisive in cases of national importance, which touch all our lives. Specifically, I want to talk with you about how courts are relinquishing the power to ...

In his Insurance Law column, Jonathan Dachs restates the "general, well-settled and widely known" rules for interpreting insurance policy provisions and uses case law to show how the courts are often ...

“The motion for a new trial shall be made promptly after the jury is discharged, or in the discretion of the court not later than 10 days thereafter.” Rule 59(b), SCRCP (emphasis added). Knowing the ...

Nearly 40 years ago, in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, the Supreme Court ruled that courts should defer to a federal agency’s interpretation of an ambiguous statute as long as that ...

The New York Court of Appeals announced that friend-of-the-court briefs on cases about legislative intent and statutes may no ...

China's top legislature, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), engaged in extensive and in-depth discussions on the draft interpretations on Clause 7 of Annex I and Clause 3 ...

State officials in Beijing have intervened in a local political controversy in Hong Kong by offering their own interpretation of the “Basic Law,” or Hong Kong's constitution, which protects the city's ...

The two elected legislators at the center of the oath-taking saga that has shaken Hong Kong’s judicial core have had their appeals dismissed by the Court of Appeal. In early November, Hong Kong’s ...