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Section 7

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Section 7
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Bostock v. Clayton County, 590 U.S. 644 (2020)
Effective Date
2020-06-15
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than literal meaning. That canon tells courts to avoid construing a stat-
ute in a way that would lead to absurd consequences. The absurdity
canon, properly understood, is “an implementation of (rather than . . . an
exception to) the ordinary meaning rule.” W. Eskridge, Interpreting Law
72 (2016). “What the rule of absurdity seeks to do is what all rules of
interpretation seek to do: make sense of the text.” A. Scalia & B. Garner,
Reading Law 235 (2012).
12             BOSTOCK v. CLAYTON COUNTY KAVANAUGH, J., dissenting