Category Archives: FCC v. AT&T

When is corpus linguistics (in)appropriate?

Posted on February 26, 2019 | Leave a comment

I’ve posted the paper that I presented at this year’s Law & Corpus Linguistics Conference at the BYU Law School. It’s titled “Corpus Linguistics in Legal Interpretation: When Is It (In)appropriate.” The abstract is below.

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FCC v. AT&T: A dissenting opinion

Posted on March 1, 2011 | Leave a comment

From Professor Bainbridge:

Twelve pages of what purports to be legal and grammatical analysis follows. But Chief Justice Roberts could have summed up his opinion far more succinctly: “Because at least 5 of us say so.”

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Decision in FCC v. AT&T

Posted on March 1, 2011 | 3 comments

The Supreme Court has decided FCC v. AT&T, the most recent case in which I filed an amicus brief, which I wrote about here. The issue in the case is whether corporations are protected by the “personal privacy” exemptions in the Freedom of Information Act, and the Court unanimously ruled that (as my brief had argued) they are not. The decision is available here.

In my unbiased opinion, the opinion was influenced by the brief in several respects.

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“AT&T slips into the Supreme Court chamber this morning…”

Posted on January 19, 2011 | Leave a comment

“…moments before arguments are set to start. He feels slightly affronted that nobody seems to notice him. (AT&T is a very emotional guy.)”

Read the whole thing.

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Personal privacy ≠ corporate privacy

Posted on January 19, 2011 | Leave a comment

I didn’t intend for the first substantive post here to be devoted to shameless self-promotion, but it’s not every day that a Supreme Court justice gives you a shout-out during an oral argument.

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