The Utah Legislature’s 2018 general session ended last month. One bill that passed brings to mind an important lesson from two American icons: former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss.
First, Justice Scalia. He died unexpectedly just two years ago. But it’s not too soon to identify him as one of the most influential American jurists of the past 50 years. By dint of his singular pen, he transformed how American courts interpret statutes — a judge’s bread-and-butter work.
Judges and lawyers no longer scour legislative history to try to discern what the legislature intended a law to mean.