Courts and scholars are experimenting with artificial intelligence tools to help establish the ordinary meaning of words and phrases in statutes and contracts. A tone of cautious optimism—one ...

Consider Newsom’s May concurrence in Snell v. United Specialty Insurance, a dispute turning on the meaning of “landscaping” and whether installing an in-ground trampoline falls within it. Newsom ...

I appreciate this opportunity to guest blog on the Volokh Conspiracy about my latest article, posted on SSRN a few weeks ago, entitled Ordinary Meaning as Last Resort: The Meaning of "Undue Hardship" ...

Our draft article shows that corpus linguistics delivers where LLM AI tools fall short—in producing nuanced linguistic data instead of bare, artificial conclusions. Modern textualism is built on at ...

In a proposal he said "many will reflexively condemn as heresy," Judge Kevin Newsom suggests that those who follow an "ordinary meaning" approach to law should consider how AI-powered LLMs such as ...

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Republican Gov. Bill Haslam has signed legislation requiring words in Tennessee law to be interpreted as having their "natural and ordinary meaning." Gay rights groups call it ...

A proposed merger agreement’s rights and obligations were in the nature of services, so a fee paid to terminate was not ...