A United States Court of Appeals sent the Oakhurst Dairy overtime case back to a lower court due to ambiguity caused by the lack of a serial (Oxford) comma in the Maine statute.
Notes on verification
Confirmed directly by the primary court opinion (1st Cir., O'Connor v. Oakhurst Dairy) and corroborated by multiple independent legal databases and major news outlets (NPR, CNN, Portland Press Herald). [tier=gold indep_score=0.971 clusters=7 claim_tier=notable | kind=empirical eligibility=high]
Sources
- A Missing Oxford Comma Just Changed the Course of a Court Case (seed:law_and_crime)
- https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/4374922/oconnor-v-oakhurst-dairy/ (corroboration)
- https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-1st-circuit/1852572.html (corroboration)
- https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-ca1-16-01901/pdf/USCOURTS-ca1-16-01901-0.pdf (corroboration)
- https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca1/16-1901/16-1901-2017-03-13.html (corroboration)
- https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/02/08/584391391/maine-dairy-drivers-settle-overtime-case-that-hinged-on-an-absent-comma (corroboration)
- https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/09/us/dairy-drivers-oxford-comma-case-settlement-trnd (corroboration)
- https://www.pressherald.com/2018/02/08/dairy-drivers-ot-case-made-famous-by-a-missing-comma-settled-for-5-million/ (corroboration)