Hart & Sacks

• Jonathan Zasloff
• September 15, 2011

If Textualism Isn’t Dead, It’s Badly Wounded

This one is too good not to blog.  Strictly speaking, it’s an immigration case, but it has interesting implications for all statutes and especially environmental ones. Jawid Habibi is a lawful resident alien, but not someone you’d want to hang around with.  He was convicted of domestic misdemeanor battery in California, and then received a 365-day …

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