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The class-action lawsuit against Oakhurst Dairy that led to a memorable ruling highlighting the virtues of the Oxford comma has been settled for $5 million. The suit, filed in 2014, alleged that drivers for Oakhurst were eligible for overtime pay that they never received. The dairy, which in early 2014 was sold to a farmers cooperative by the Maine family that had owned it for 93 years, argued that the wording of a state law meant the drivers weren’t eligible for overtime pay.

HOLLYWOOD, California, October 18, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — After Victoria Arlen spent four years in a “vegetative” state, many in the medical establishment had given up on her. Now she’s whirling across a stage competing on ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars.” At age 11, Arlen started showing signs of two rare disorders that caused swelling in her brain and spinal cord. But doctors couldn’t figure out what was wrong. Untreated, she began to lose function in her legs, then her hands and arms. She couldn’t swallow and couldn’t think of the words she wanted to say. Ultimately, her body shut down...

LYON, France, October 2, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — No human being is ever a “vegetable,” but the phrase “Permanent Vegetative State” certainly described “Jack.” If someone falls into a “Persistent Vegetative State” (PVS), being completely unaware and unresponsive for a whole year, their condition is diagnosed as permanent.   Colloquially speaking, Jack (a pseudonym) looked awake, but he “wasn’t there.” Now, French doctors have shattered that medical conviction by reviving the 35-year-old man who spent 15 unresponsive years after a severe car accident. Doctors implanted a device to stimulate Jack’s vagus nerve, the longest of the involuntary nerves that runs...

A class-action lawsuit about overtime pay for truck drivers hinged entirely on a debate that has bitterly divided friends, families and foes: The dreaded — or totally necessary — Oxford comma, perhaps the most polarizing of punctuation marks. What ensued in The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and in a 29-page court decision handed down on Monday, was an exercise in high-stakes grammar pedantry that could cost a dairy company in Portland, Me., an estimated $10 million.

For a week, I've been info digging and fact foraging to no avail, for my column concerning the Tucson Arizona shootings. Acquiring any factual information last week was futile. The agenda-filled rhetoric and innuendo blasting on all sides in the print and broadcast media, was insane. It was a week-long blame-fest. Outlets seemed more interested in making political hay at the expense of fellow pundits than fact finding and information sharing regarding the tragedy. While trying to sort this all out, I received an e-mailed link to an editorial titled “Gun Crazy” by Summit Daily News Editor, Alex Miller. Being...

Ego is a kingdom unto itself Justification of logic is just that in that your ego overides the foolishness of the mind of man to supercede God in all its intentions , bringing contentions against the Creator of all things . Therefore suffer yourselves " repent and die " to the flesh of man that I may dress you in eternal righteousness "my love" for all creation by The Blood of The Lamb . . . John 15:5 (New International Version) 5"I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he...

The Supreme Court's upcoming decision in a Washington, D.C. handgun ban case could potentially nullify thousands of gun laws on the books. The case stems from a security guard who was denied a request to keep a firearm in his District residence for self-protection.Washington D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty recently said that the District's handgun ban "has saved many lives since 1976 and will continue to do so if allowed to remain in force." How does he measure that? The truth is that murder by handguns has gone up substantially in the District since the handgun ban was passed. I wonder...

Commas Enhance Clarity, Regulate Writing Flow Kenneth F. Oettle Texas Lawyer 09-15-2003 When anyone reads anything which he wishes to study, he does not despise the letters and punctuation marks, and call them illusion, chance and worthless shells, but he reads them, he studies and loves them, letter by letter." That's a quote from Herman Hesse Siddhartha's "New Directions." Not knowing how to use commas is like not knowing how to catch a baseball. Despite the simplicity and utility of doing it correctly, some people do it wrong anyway. One catches a baseball by drawing the glove back as the...