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Today’s justices make generous use of legal canons—those old principles of interpretation that come from Roman law and are often, perhaps surprisingly, shared with Islamic law.[15]After Karl Llewelyn excoriated the use of these legal canons to interpret statutes as incoherent over half a century ago, Justice Scalia and his textualist colleagues (and disciples) rehabilitated them.[16]They are now favored tools for Justices Barrett, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, Alito, Roberts, and Thomas. [read post]

Balkinization - http://balkin.blogspot.com/

June 2022 New Books

5 Jul 2022, 12:50 pm by Barbara Moreno

Rhodes, Robert S. [read post]

The Reporter - https://texastechlawlibrary.wordpress.com

The Two-Front War on the Administrative State: How Far Will the Supreme Court Go?

4 Jul 2022, 9:05 pm by John C. Coffee, Jr.

Concluding that the EPA had claimed to discover “an unheralded power” to effect a “nationwide transition away from the use of coal to generate electricity,” it ruled in a 6-3 decision, authored by the Chief Justice, that: “[I]t is not plausible that Congress gave the EPA the authority to adopt on its own such a regulatory scheme in Section 111(d)” of the Clean Air Act.[18] Chief Justice Roberts’ decision, while greatly disappointing to… [read post]

The CLS Blue Sky Blog - https://clsbluesky.law.columbia.edu/

Bipartisan Group of Former SEC Officials and Securities Experts Confirms Longstanding SEC Authority on Climate Disclosure

16 Jun 2022, 9:05 pm by Working Group on Securities Disclosure Authority

[Editor’s Note: This post is based on a comment letter submitted to the U.S. [read post]

The CLS Blue Sky Blog - https://clsbluesky.law.columbia.edu/

Early Edition: June 16, 2022

16 Jun 2022, 4:30 am by Emma Snell

Roberts Jr, said the case had presented “a host of important questions,” which he suggested may be resolved by the court in another context. [read post]

Just Security - https://www.justsecurity.org/

The Major Questions Doctrine Slams the Door Shut on UMC Rulemaking

28 Apr 2022, 9:15 am by Randolph J. May and Andrew K. Magloughlin

Magloughlin and Randolph J. [read post]

Truth on the Market - http://truthonthemarket.com/

SEC Proposes Amendments to Schedules 13D and 13G

6 Mar 2022, 4:20 am

Jackson Jr. [read post]

The Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Blog - http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov

News You Can Use Digest – February 25, 2022

25 Feb 2022, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor

National/Federal Big U.S. [read post]