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<div class="">Neil Gorsuch, dictionaries, and “The Case of the Frozen Trucker.”</div>
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Court nominee Neil Gorsuch is getting well-deserved shade for favoring employers in legal disputes. As he began his Senate confirmation hearings, the Supreme Court, which Gorsuch hopes to join, unanimously overturned his decision siding with a school board
against an autistic pupil in a </span><a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/16pdf/15-827_0pm1.pdf" data-mce-href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/16pdf/15-827_0pm1.pdf" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">special
education dispute.</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> But
the Gorsuch opinion that interests me most, because it involves dictionaries, is “The Case of the Frozen Trucker.”</span></div>
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how Judge Gorsuch cited the OED, misread the statute, and generally interpreted the law in a decidedly unoriginalistic fashion, in his dissent in “The Case of the Frozen Trucker,” with a nod to William Blackstone and “The Case of the Bolognese Bloodletter,”
on the Web of Language:</span></div>
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