[Ads-l] Tennessee's new plain meaning law is plainly ambiguous and discriminatory

[Baron, Dennis E]

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Tennessee's new plain meaning law is plainly ambiguous and discriminatory

When laws don't define the words that they contain, we're supposed to give those words their plain or ordinary meaning. A Tennessee bill, passed on April 27 and awaiting the governor's signature, would take this common practice of legal interpretation and turn it into a law, only with a twist: the Tennessee plain meaning law has a hidden meaning that is plainly discriminatory.

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