Eight justices sided with Wescley Fonseca Pereira in his argument that a government-issued document notifying him of the government’s intention to initiate removal proceedings against him did not stop ...

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 ...

Unlike the relatively straightforward de novo standard of review of the legal determinations of a court, judicial review of an administrative agency's legal determinations is more complex, especially ...

"There is no statute of limitations barring originality in statutory construction, and it may be possible that the plain meaning of § 7-433c has been hiding in plain sight for the past seventy years," ...

On June 28, 2024, in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, the U.S. Supreme Court overruled Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., which for 40 years required court deference ...

Just before the end of 2022, the Ohio Supreme Court decided the case TWISM Ents., L.L.C. v. State Bd. of Registration for Professional Engineers & Surveyors. In TWISM, the Court took steps similar to ...

The Michigan Law Review began publication in 1902 and is the sixth oldest legal journal in the country. The Review originally was intended as a forum for the faculty of the Law Department to publish ...

The art of contract interpretation involves determining the meaning of an agreement. Often, courts must determine whether a particular term is reasonably susceptible to more than one meaning, and if ...

D M Harish School of Law, HSNC University, Mumbai recently hosted Haresh Jagtiani, Senior Counsel, Oasis Counsel & Advisory, to deliver a lecture on ‘Interpretation of Statutes’. In her opening ...