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 ...

Yesterday, the Court heard oral arguments in Mayorkas v. Cuellar de Osorio, a case raising a technical issue of statutory construction of the complex U.S. immigration laws. The specific question ...

In a classic case of statutory interpretation, in which every technical thrust seemed to be met by an equally adept technical parry, Lockhart v. United States ended in a result readily understandable ...

Today’s 8-1 ruling in Badgerow v. Walters on an arcane issue under the Federal Arbitration Act displays a sharp divide between the textualism of Justice Kagan’s majority opinion and the ...

The common law cause of action for wrongful use of civil proceedings has been codified at 42 Pa.C.S.A. Section 8352, et seq. The statute is referred to as the Dragonetti Act. The tort of wrongful use ...

An analysis of the conflict that exists between the Amended Guaranty Law's explicit statutory language and the City Council's newly published declaration of legislative intent and findings. The ...

WASHINGTON—For the past year, Justice Antonin Scalia and Judge Robert Katzmann have been battling for the hearts, or at least the minds, of the judiciary through books presenting competing approaches ...