When a private lender fails to respond promptly to a consumer’s claim that it falsely presented the consumer’s borrowing history, Congress established under the Fair Credit Reporting Act that the ...

Supreme Court Associate Justice Elena Kagan discussed what she described as “remarkable” changes in interpretation of statutory law in a conversation with law professor John F. Manning ’82 during an ...

With the new Trump administration, immigration has been in the national news. President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions have emphasized that the U.S. government will target “criminal ...

Statutory Interpretation Versus Hierarchical Presumptions: Supreme Court Settles Section 29A Jurisdiction. Legal News and ...

The Connecticut Supreme Court clarified the meaning of the word "submit" in a statute regarding the annual submission of income and expense information of property used for producing rental income.

ONE of the most familiar facts concerning our political system is the division of powers between the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the government. Hardly less familiar is the ...

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 ...

In Asare v. Attorney General , the Supreme Court announced the death of the ?plain meaning? approach to judicial interpretation. Writing for a unanimous Court (Justice Kludze filed a concurring ...

When I was still in college, co-conspirator Nick Rosenkranz published a justly famous article called “Federal Rules of Statutory Interpretation,” arguing that Congress could and should authorize ...