It also offers an equally harsh negative judgment of the federal authorities whose mandate is to protect the integrity of the public's food supply chain but who have chosen to interpret this responsibility so lightly as to let such claims stand while ignoring repeated offenses by the industry.
In this generation of American politics, how a man reacted to the war in Vietnam — what service he did or avoided, how he interpreted his responsibilities, whether he was serious about the relation between his own choices and his country's — has inevitably been a central question.
Of course, it could prove hard to define and interpret the ethical responsibilities of businesses.
Mr. Stenberg said that as attorney general, he had the responsibility to interpret state laws.
Justice John Paul Stevens, in an opinion joined by Justices David H. Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen G. Breyer, said it remained "the federal courts' independent responsibility" to interpret federal law.
"We have a responsibility to interpret other cultures," Mr. Jones went on, singling out the museum's Indian, Japanese and Chinese collections.
A spokesman for Ofcom, Ed Taylor, said the concept of "fit and proper" had no fixed definition and it was the regulator's responsibility to interpret it.
As the judge's children wrote, a judge has "a constitutional responsibility to interpret and apply the laws that Congress enacts, based on the facts and law presented in the courtroom, and not on public opinion".
He chose to write the majority opinion emphasizing the Court's responsibility to interpret the Affordable Care Act as a whole and not to fixate on the few isolated words that challengers said undid the tax subsidies enabling millions of Americans to buy health insurance.
He chose to write the majority opinion emphasizing the Court's responsibility to interpret the Affordable Care Act as a whole — and not to fixate on the few isolated words that challengers said undid the tax subsidies enabling millions of Americans to buy health insurance.
