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If the legislature wrote into law "black is white", how would the judiciary react?
There was a recent case in the US state of California (Almond Alliance v. California Fish & Game Commission) that got a lot of press because the court found that bees were fish. The California ...
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If the legislature wrote into law "black is white", how would the judiciary react?
Statutes do not define words in a vaccuum. Or if they do, there just is no effect. Statutes define words for particular purposes in particular contexts.
Statutory definitions are also used to expand ...
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