While textualists want to only focus on the actual text of the statute, the purpose of statutory interpretation, in my ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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?

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Paul is a Senior Legal Research Fellow in the Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation. With regard to cases involving issues of statutory interpretation, the difference ...