Lack of comma sense ignites debate after ruling in $10M suit
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March 17, 2017
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — It all came down to a missing comma, and not just any one. And it's reignited a longstanding debate over whether the punctuation is necessary.
A federal appeals court decided this week to keep alive a lawsuit by dairy drivers seeking more than $10 million in an overtime pay dispute.
It concerned Maine's overtime law, which doesn't apply to the "canning, processing, preserving, freezing, drying, marketing, storing, packing for shipment or distribution of" foods.
There's no Oxford, or serial, comma in the "packing for shipment or distribution" part. The drivers said the wo...
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