Clear Statements is a recurring series by Abbe R. Gluck on civil litigation and the modern regulatory and statutory state. Depending on who you ask, the real “bad old days” at the Supreme Court were ...

Small businesses work with contracts every day. A company can have written contracts in place with its landlord, its vendors and its customers. Some of those contracts might contain vague provisions ...

One recent and recurring topic in legal interpretation is the nature and status of rules of legal interpretation - such as the rule of lenity, the anti-surplusage canon, and much more. In an important ...