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"Turning 'less' into 'more' would be a feat more closely associated with the mutating commandments on the barn's wall in Animal Farm than with sincere interpretation."

"Turning 'less' into 'more' would be a feat more closely associated with the mutating commandments on the barn's wall in Animal Farm than with sincere interpretation." Finally, a federal appellate court has refused to construe "less" to mean "more" in the appellate timing provision contained in the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005. Chief Judge Frank H. Easterbrook today issued this decision on behalf of a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

I argued in favor of the result that Chief Judge Easterbrook reached today in the February 13, 2006 installment of my "On Appeal" column for law.com, headlined "Less Is More: When Courts Decide a Law Means the Opposite of What It Says."

Full post as published by How Appealing on June 12, 2008 (boomark / email).