"If Congress wanted to make clear that 'seeking admission' was an independent requirement in the statute, it could have ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Justice Scalia and Judge Robert Katzmann on how the Judicial branch interprets statutes. Justice Scalia and Judge Robert Katzmann on how the Judicial ...

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 ...

The analysis outlined in this paper shows how the Supreme Court involves itself in philosophical abstraction in the interpretation and construction of statutes. The cases also show that the Supreme ...

Pereira v. Sessions is not the immigration case that everyone will be watching this month, but it is definitely worth a glance. At first blush, this case looks like a hyper-technical and relatively ...

Canons of Interpretation and Construction. It is an accepted fact that words have no proper or specific meaning until they are put into a context of situation. A word may bear: (a) the meaning put ...