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 ...

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 ...

In his Insurance Law column, Jonathan Dachs restates the "general, well-settled and widely known" rules for interpreting insurance policy provisions and uses case law to show how the courts are often ...

Under a doctrine established in the 1984 case Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, courts defer to a federal agency's "permissible" or "reasonable" interpretation of an "ambiguous" statute.

Rules and regulations by federal agencies, which many now call the administrative state, are quickly supplanting Congress as the principal source of the rules that American citizens and businesses ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit recently issued its long-awaited ruling in the PHH v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau case, finding the structure of the Consumer Financial ...

The Department of Labor’s fiduciary rule will make it “more challenging than ever” for advisors and others to recommend rollovers in a non-fiduciary capacity, according to a lawyer, speaking during a ...