Statutory interpretation is the process by which courts interpret and apply legislation. Some amount of interpretation is often necessary when a case involves...

legislation relating to interpretation of legislation Judicial interpretation, an interpretation of law by a judiciary Statutory interpretation, determining the...

Public and private bills Organic statute Super statute Constitution Statutory interpretation Black, Henry Campbell (1990). Black's Law Dictionary, Sixth Edition...

construction, purposive interpretation, or the modern principle in construction) is an approach to statutory and constitutional interpretation under which common...

Supreme Court. On an interpretation of state law, whether common law or statutory law, the federal courts are bound by the interpretation of a state court...

The mischief rule is one of three rules of statutory interpretation traditionally applied by English courts, the other two being the "plain meaning rule"...

non-legally-binding nature of historical revision notes in the U.S. Code (unlike statutory notes which do have force of law). Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned...

employment. By using statutory interpretation in the majority opinion, the Court in Price Waterhouse expanded the interpretation of Title VII to “establish...

The major questions doctrine is a principle of statutory interpretation applied in United States administrative law cases which states that courts will...

Separation of powers Statutory interpretation John E. Finn (2006). "Part I: Lecture 4: The Court and Constitutional Interpretation". Civil Liberties and...

Limits of Literalism: Defining the Absurd Result Principle in Statutory Interpretation", 44 Am. U. L. Rev. 127, 1994–95 (subscription required). K Mart...

has continued to teach civil procedure, constitutional law, and statutory interpretation. On September 26, 2020, Trump nominated Barrett to succeed Ruth...

presented. Riggs v. Palmer (Earl, J): used the "social purpose" rule of statutory construction, the process of interpreting a will. Wood v. Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon...

Textualism is the perspective of statutory interpretation in which the courts should read the words of that statutory text as any ordinary member of congress...

Originalism is a legal theory that bases constitutional, judicial, and statutory interpretation of text on the original understanding at the time of its adoption...

particularly constitutional documents and legislation (see statutory interpretation). In logic, an interpretation is an assignment of meaning to the symbols of a...

decision of the House of Lords on the use of legislative history in statutory interpretation. The court established the principle that when primary legislation...

construe their country's statutory law: linguistics or semantics, common law and jurisprudence. Although statutory interpretation usually involves a personal...

of statutory construction traditionally applied by the English courts. The rule can be used to avoid the consequences of a literal interpretation of the...

importance of the separation of powers and literal approach to statutory interpretation. Two others overturn the convictions; one focuses on "common sense"...

Original intent is a theory in law concerning constitutional and statutory interpretation. It is frequently used as a synonym for originalism;[1] while original...

status that same year. Gorsuch is a proponent of textualism in statutory interpretation and originalism in interpreting the United States Constitution...

meaning rule, also known as the literal rule, is one of three rules of statutory construction traditionally applied by English courts. The other two are...

2016–2020. He writes primarily on constitutional law, legislation and statutory interpretation, religion, marriage equality, and LGBT rights. After earning a...

ambiguity in the statutory language, but noted that even if these arguments successfully argued for ambiguity in the text, NMFS's interpretation of the MSA...

analysts claimed that the case defined Gorsuch as a textualist in statutory interpretation. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed into law amid the civil...

seek an objective interpretation of the law. The jurisprudence of statutory interpretation is not settled in Australia. Interpretive doctrines such as the...

comprehensive, courts began to operate within narrower limits of statutory interpretation. Jeremy Bentham famously criticized judicial lawmaking when he...

question of judicial activism is closely related to judicial interpretation, statutory interpretation, and separation of powers. Arthur Schlesinger Jr. introduced...

so aggregating their viewpoints is an impractical approach to statutory interpretation. In the book's introduction, Scalia and Garner focus on the 1986...