Showing posts with label statutory interpretation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label statutory interpretation. Show all posts

Sunday, December 06, 2015

Justice Kagan on How to Interpret Statutes

The Scalia Lecture at Harvard Law School this year was a  dialogue with Justice Elena Kagan about the reading of statutes. The dialogue is with Professor John Manning of Harvard Law School. 1 hour, no transcript. You can find the video on SCOTUSblog or directly on YouTube.

Saturday, March 07, 2015

King v. Burwell and the Affordable Care Act before the U.S. Supreme Court

Oral arguments in the case of King v. Burwell are available here. This case involves an attack on the Affordable Care Act based on a very technical question of statutory interpretation. Listening to this you will see the how the members of the Court and the lawyers for the parties interact. You’ll hear lots of counterfactuals and laughter too. 1h 25 min. Transcript available.
More information on the case from Nina Totenberg on NPR can be found here. 4 min 49 sec.