Opinion

NCLA Asks First Circuit to Reel in Rule Requiring Fishermen to Pay for Gov't Monitors on Their Boats

The New Civil Liberties Alliance filed its opening brief today at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Relentless, Inc. v. Dept. of Commerce. In 2024, NCLA persuaded the U.S. Supreme ...
The Heritage Foundation

Who Should Interpret Our Statutes and How It Affects Our Separation of Powers

The interpretation of statutes is so often decisive in cases of national importance, which touch all our lives. Specifically, I want to talk with you about how courts are relinquishing the power to ...
JD Supra

Supreme Court Rules District Courts Not Bound by FCC Statutory Interpretations under the Hobbs Act

On Friday, June 20th, the Supreme Court in McLaughlin Chiropractic Assoc., Inc. v. McKesson Corp., No. 23-1226 (U.S. June 2025), ruled in a 6-3 decision that the Hobbs Act does not bind federal ...
Education Week

What the Supreme Court’s Chevron Decision Could Mean for Biden’s Title IX Rule

In a decision that may be felt in schools and colleges across the country, the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday overruled a major precedent on when courts should defer to federal agencies’ interpretations ...
JSTOR Daily

Preference-Eliciting Statutory Default Rules

One puzzlement about statutory interpretation is that so many statutory canons run contrary to likely legislative preferences, sound policy, or even the judicial self-interest in avoiding being ...