MAINE OXFORD COMMA LAWSUIT OVERTIME LAW SCREWS YOU, ME, & ... Appeals Court Agrees!!

tmz ^ | 3/16/17 | tmz

[RummyChick]

I agree with 5th circuit on this one.

[ConservativeMind]

I believe in the Oxford comma.

How we moved away from using it is beyond me.

[bigbob]

I thought it was the law, after “eats, shoots, and leaves”.

[Red Badger]

Comma, comma, comma, comma, comma, chameleon
You come and go......................

[Red Badger]

I guess the 5th circuit believes in Bad Comma............

[heterosupremacist]

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[Still Thinking]

I agree with 5th circuit on this one.

Me too, although it reads oddly without "and" before the last item in the list.

[heterosupremacist]

[RummyChick]

You can distribute without shipping but shipping includes distribution.

[xrmusn]

ALSO
Commas are your friend....

The Judge said the lawyer is an idiot.
The Judge, said the lawyer, is an idiot.

Capitals in the correct place can also be your friend...

Bill helped his Uncle Jack off his horse.
Bill helped his Uncle jack off his horse.

[edwinland]

“canning, processing, preserving, freezing, drying, marketing, storing, packing for shipment or distribution of: (1) Agriculture produce; (2) meat and fish products; and (3) perishable foods.”

I’m not sure this exemption actually exempts anyone at all. Everyone is so focused on the comma they missed the “and”. I’d argued that unless you are packing all three of these products you are not exempt.

[Still Thinking]

It’s still a list, and a list has a last item (even if compound), and the last items in the list should be preceded by “and”, IMO.

[Tijeras_Slim]

[6ppc]

This thread really brought out the grammar nazies! ,^)

[reed13k]

In this case the series is an ‘or’ series, but the same rules apply as for an ‘and’ series....but at least it explains why there is not ‘and’.

[RummyChick]

Not true in a legal document.

Or means or
and means and
and/or means and or or
and a common means a difference.

[Deplorable American1776]

Comma is your friend..Typos are bad...

[camle]

Here is the problem: “storing, packing for shipment or distribution of: “ shipment or distribution. the truckers are the distribution, but the absence of the comma after ‘shipment’ changes the meaning from “packing for shipping” and “distribution” to “packing for (either) shipment or distribution”, not distribution itself, hence the ruling.

[RummyChick]

auto correct is worse

[10mm]