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 ...

Small businesses work with contracts every day. A company can have written contracts in place with its landlord, its vendors and its customers. Some of those contracts might contain vague provisions ...

Next Tuesday’s argument in Lockhart v. United States promises to be a prime-time event for statutory interpretation geeks. Indeed, one could tout this as “The Battle of the Canons” – the exchange of ...

Following recent rulings from the U.S. Supreme Court, Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe signed legislation to limit state agency's authority in interpreting rules and regulations. Senate Bill 221, sponsored by ...

INTERPRETING what someone else has written is no mean job especially when the writer and the interpreter have no common meeting point but that is exactly what law courts do every day. Justices, judges ...

D M Harish School of Law, HSNC University, Mumbai recently hosted Haresh Jagtiani, Senior Counsel, Oasis Counsel & Advisory, to deliver a lecture on ‘Interpretation of Statutes’. In her opening ...

A long awaited decision in a challenge to the Trump Administration's "bump stock" ban tees up some interesting questions for the High Court's review. Today a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals ...