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Subject:Re: Using the word shall From:Vicki Rosenzweig <murphy!acmcr!vr -at- UUNET -dot- UU -dot- NET> Date:Fri, 7 Oct 1994 14:08:45 EDT
It certainly is "not unheard of for a point of law to be determined
by a point of grammar": this past Monday, the Supreme Court heard
arguments about a pornography law. The question of whether the law
is unconstitutional turns on a _comma_.
Vicki Rosenzweig
vr%acmcr -dot- uucp -at- murphy -dot- com
New York, NY
