Do the Ene Doctrine and its "reverse-Erie" mirror require state and federal courts to apply one another's statutory interpretation methodologies when they interpret one another's statutes?
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 ...
An analysis of the conflict that exists between the Amended Guaranty Law's explicit statutory language and the City Council's newly published declaration of legislative intent and findings. The ...
Clear Statements is a recurring series by Abbe R. Gluck on civil litigation and the modern regulatory and statutory state. Depending on who you ask, the real “bad old days” at the Supreme Court were ...
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 ...
The Yale Law Journal, Vol. 121, No. 3 (DECEMBER 2011), pp. 534-622 (89 pages) State implementation of federal law is commonplace, but has been largely ignored by the interpretive doctrines of ...
Jonathan Skrmetti is chief deputy attorney general of the state of Tennessee, which filed an amicus brief on behalf of 15 states in support of the employers in Bostock v. Clayton County and Harris ...
The true force of Beijing’s fifth interpretation of Hong Kong’s Basic Law will at some point be determined by Hong Kong courts in adjudication. The irony is that, as common law courts, Hong Kong ...