Section 7

Citation: Section 7
Parent Document: Bostock v. Clayton County, 590 U.S. 644 (2020)
Jurisdiction: United States (federal)
Effective Date: 2020-06-15
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/4760997/bostock-v-clayton-county/ ↗

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Contrary to the majority opinion's approach today, this Court has repeatedly emphasized that common parlance matters in assessing the ordinary meaning of a statute, because courts heed how "most people" "would have understood" the text of a statute when enacted. New Prime Inc. v. Oliveira , 586 U.S. ----, ---- - ----, 139 S.Ct. 532, 538-539, 202 L.Ed.2d 536 (2019) ; see Henson v. Santander Consumer USA Inc. , 582 U.S. ----, ----, 137 S.Ct. 1718, 1722, 198 L.Ed.2d 177 (2017) (using a conversation between friends to demonstrate ordinary meaning); see also Wisconsin Central Ltd. v. United States , 585 U.S. ----, ---- - ----, 138 S.Ct. 2067, 2070-2071, 201 L.Ed.2d 490 (2018) (similar); AT&T , 562 U.S. at 403-404, 131 S.Ct. 1177 (similar).

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