Interpretation of suits :---

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Statutory interpretation is necessary for several reasons.

First, it’s impossible as a practical matter to draft a statute that covers every possible eventuality. At
some point, something will come up that isn’t covered by the statute, and then the judge has to figure it
out.
Second, even if it were possible to draft a statute that covered every possible situation, times change.
For instance, a statute that made perfect sense in a pre-internet era might suddenly become unworkable
because of advances in technology.
Third, no matter how carefully legislators try to draft a statute, there is always some ambiguity inherent
in the English language, and when issues arise about whether the statute actually meant A or B,
somebody has to figure it out.
Fourth, statutes are sometimes intentionally drafted in ways that are unclear, because legislators can’t
agree. If half of the legislative body wants the statute to say A, and the other half wants it to say B,
sometimes they intentionally include fudgy language that could go either way, and punt the ultimate
decision to the courts.
(The most famous example of #4 is the United States Constitution. The Founding Fathers were unable
to agree on a clause about whether states should have the right to secede from the union, so they
intentionally left it out. It took the Civil War before the issue was finally decided.)

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