AMAZING 7TH CIR DOCKET ENTRY: "INTERNET CITATION NOTE: Material from decision with internet citation. ATTACHED. Judge Flaum Concurrence."pic.twitter.com/4UOR8OufPs
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Cc: @MerriamWebster (b/c duh)
"INTERNET CITATION NOTE: HOMOSEXUALLY." #mybrandpic.twitter.com/fcdkTJd2oE
Please explain to to the people in the back? I'm assuming judges are not supposed to law straight out of a dictionary, let alone Internet?
When it's a matter of statutory interpretation, it's not unusual to quote the dictionary in discussing meanings of a word.
They want to discuss what law-makers might have meant and hiw strained a particular interpretation can be.
A great deal of legal argument rests on the interpretation of words. (That's why it's fun.)
Mostly curious because one of the Gorsuch hearings mentioned digging for dictionary definitions that favored a political view.
@MerriamWebster tracks actual usage, while American heritage was more concerned with " original" meanings, so...
Ok, now figure out how to fit textualiam to interstate commerce and women's reproductive rights.
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