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This category includes United States case law interpreting important statutes or setting precedents for the manner in which courts are to interpret statutes. Subcategories This category has the following 10 subcategories, out of 10 total.
Statutory interpretation is the process of resolving those ambiguities and deciding how a particular bill or law will apply in a particular case. Assume, for example, that a statute mandates that all motor vehicles travelling on a public roadway must be registered with the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV).
Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co., 463 U.S. 29 (1983), commonly known in U.S. administrative law as State Farm, is a United States Supreme Court decision concerning regulations requiring passive restraints in cars.
He disagreed with the government's position that the APA does not authorize universal vacatur of a rule, in which a court voids a regulation even as applied to those not involved in the case. He said that the statutory provision directing courts to "set aside [unlawful] agency action" allows courts to vacate regulations—distinguishing vacatur ...
In such a case, a court may not substitute its own construction of a statutory provision for a reasonable interpretation made by the administrator of an agency. — Chevron , 467 U.S. at 843–44 (internal quotation marks, alterations, citations, and footnotes omitted).
Pepper (Inspector of Taxes) v Hart [1992] UKHL 3, is a landmark decision of the House of Lords on the use of legislative history in statutory interpretation.The court established the principle that when primary legislation is ambiguous then, in certain circumstances, the court may refer to statements made in the House of Commons or House of Lords in an attempt to interpret the meaning of the ...
A statutory rape case of a 14-year-old who would meet Epstein a year later was dismissed by then-Palm Beach County State Attorney Barry Krischer, but the adult admitted having sex with her.
The Blockburger case was solely decided as a rule of Federal statutory interpretation. It was not until the U.S. Supreme Court decided, Brown v. Ohio , 432 U.S. 161 (1977), some 45 years later, did the court rule that the Blockburger test was a matter of constitutional law and thus applicable to the states when interpreting state statutes.