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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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...
Go figure, scalia would make hay about the differences... and then lexicography became politically charged
But that's another failing of "plain text reading" as a judicial philosophy... it punts to the lexicographer, who is not, in fact, a jurist
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