Scenic America, Inc. v. Department of

The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.

Statement of Justice GORSUCH, with whom THE CHIEF JUSTICE and Justice ALITO join, respecting the denial of certiorari.

Say an administrative agency contracts with an outside party. Later, the two sides wind up disagreeing over the meaning of an ambiguous term in their agreement. How should courts resolve the dispute? Usually, of course, judges look to the tested and pretty ancient rules of contract construction. For example, we often resolve contractual ambiguities against the party who wrote the agreement, in part on the theory that the drafter…