The Yale Law Journal

Robert L. Nightingale

Note

How To Trim a Christmas Tree: Beyond Severability and Inseverability for Omnibus Statutes

Robert L. Nightingale

This Note advocates a new approach to determining the severability of long, complex omnibus statutes. It first examines the legal basis for the Supreme Court’s current approach to severability, outlined in the three severability principles of Alaska Airlines, Inc. v. Brock. The …