Oxford Comma
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 10.20.20
* A lawyer has been suspended from practice for five drunk driving arrests. This attorney needs to learn how to “pass” a bar… [Bloomberg Law]
* A pregnant Pennsylvania lawyer completed a hearing in a murder case last week after her water broke during the proceedings. [Today]
* A curfew in Miami, Florida, has been eliminated thanks to a lawsuit filed by a local strip club. [Fox News]
* Los Angeles is facing a lawsuit over mamajuana delivery licenses. [Independent]
* Goodwin Procter has promoted a trans lawyer to equity partnership. [Bloomberg Law]
* A Rhode Island criminal trial may be decided by a semicolon in a statute. Still waiting for the Oxford comma to make an appearance in a criminal trial… [Providence Journal]
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English Grammar and Usage, Reader Polls
Grammer Pole of the Weak: Are You Serial with That Comma?
Welcome to Above the Law's latest Friday series: Grammer Pole of the Weak. Readers, the title of this weekly poll is supposed to be ironic. Are you serial with all of these emails correcting our spelling? Speaking of being serial, let's turn to the topic of this week's discussion: the serial comma....