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Scalia Lecture Series: A Dialogue with Justice Elena Kagan on the Reading of Statutes, YouTube( Nov. 25, 2015) https:// www. youtube. com / watch? v = dpEtszFT0Tg).
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For a detailed overview of canons of interpretation, refer generally to the seminal text Antonin Scalia & Bryan A. Garner, Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts( 2012).
3
Conage v. United States, 346 So. 3d 594, 598( Fla. 2022).
4
Berman Constr. & Dev., Inc. v. Carnaval Home, LLC, No. 4D2024- 2174, 2026 WL 1083897, at * 4( Fla. 4th DCA Apr. 22, 2026)( internal citations and quotations omitted).
5
See Rickert v. Valencia, 51 Fla. L. Weekly D831( Fla. 6th DCA Apr. 17, 2026). 6
Estes v. Palm Beach Cnty. Sch. Dist., 51 Fla. L. Weekly D536( Fla. 1st DCA Mar. 23, 2026).
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Palma v. Regions Bank, 428 So. 3d 214, 217( Fla. 3d DCA 2026)( quoting Lab’ y Corp. of Am. v. Davis, 339 So. 3d 318, 324( Fla. 2022)).
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See Mojica v. State, 51 Fla. L. Weekly D180( Fla. 3d DCA Jan. 28, 2026)( Lindsey, J., dissenting)( quoting Unruh v. State, 669 So. 2d 242, 245( Fla. 1996)).
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Id.( quoting D. M. T. v. T. M. H., 129 So. 3d 320, 332( Fla. 2013)).
10
Conage, 346 So. 3d at 598( canons are“ guides to interpretation, rather than... inflexible rules”).
11
See Geoffrey Rush: Capt. Hector
Barbossa, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl( Walt Disney Pictures 2003).
Author: Lara E. Breslow – Florida Office of the Attorney General
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