Obamacare and the Language of Law
On Sept. 30, Judge Ronald A. White of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma delivered his decision in Pruitt v. Burwell, the third of four related cases to have received a judgment. The four cases challenge the IRS ruling that ObamaCare...Will Ambiguity Save ObamaCare?
Laws in these United States need to be unambiguous. But in one of the most problematic pieces of legislation ever foisted on the American people, the issue may well be whether Congress can be unambiguous for even five words. In the recent ObamaCare case of Halbig v....
Illogic in American Law
In The Paper Chase, actor John Houseman tells his first-year law students: “You come in here with a skull full of mush; you leave thinking like a lawyer.” But after all the time, and money, and debt that might run into the six figures, one would hope that law school...