DO NOT THROW OUT THAT OLD DICTIONARY

DO NOT THROW OUT THAT OLD DICTIONARY

Do not throw out that old dictionary. Or, if you must, make sure that you have access to a place that keeps old books. The law is written in words. Often disputes arise over the meaning of words in contracts or statutes or constitutions. Recently, the United States...
Statutory Interpretation and Sexual Orientation

Statutory Interpretation and Sexual Orientation

Statutory interpretation hardly is a sexy subject. But, competing views on how statutes should be interpreted are very much a current issue with respect to whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination in employment on the basis of sexual...
A New Parenthetical

A New Parenthetical

Not much has changed in proper legal citation since I began law school other than the fact that the current edition of the Blue Book is much thicker and has larger pages than the relatively compact edition that I bought in 1980. Compare THE BLUEBOOK: A UNIFORM SYSTEM...

Get Ready To Pay (and Remit) More State Sales Taxes

This morning the Supreme Court overruled over fifty years of precedent and held that a state can hold an out-of-state seller responsible for collecting sales taxes.  See South Dakota v. Wayfair (https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/17-494_j4el.pdf). In National...