[lg policy] Tennessee’s new “plain meaning” law is plainly ambiguous and discriminatory

[Baron, Dennis E]

There’s a new post on the Web of Language: http://bit.ly/2oZ831v


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.

Read the full post on the Web of Language: http://bit.ly/2oZ831v

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