Rimini Street v Oracle USA, set for argument on January 14, is another one of those routine statutory interpretation cases that reach the Supreme Court’s docket not because they present deep ...

Anita S. Krishnakumar is a professor of law and the associate dean for faculty scholarship at St. John’s University School of Law. Substantive canons of statutory construction — such as the rule of ...

A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision involving the federal use of National Guard troops highlights how academic legal analysis can play a decisive role at the n ...

I appreciate this opportunity to guest blog on the Volokh Conspiracy about my latest article, posted on SSRN a few weeks ago, entitled Ordinary Meaning as Last Resort: The Meaning of "Undue Hardship" ...

The Supreme Court has had a number of major statutory interpretation cases in recent years. These include Yates (is a fish a "tangible object"?) and Bond (was a contaminated doorknob a use of ...

The US Supreme Court heard arguments in two cases on Monday: Thacker v. Tennessee Valley Authority and Rimini Street Inc. v. Oracle USA Inc. First of the day, Thacker v. Tennessee Valley Authority ...

"Appellate judges spend virtually every working hour speaking, listening to, reading, or writing English prose. Statutes are written in English prose, and interpretation is not a technical exercise to ...