Legal Opinion
O'Connor v. Oakhurst Dairy
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 13, 2017No. 16-1901PPublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BARRON, Circuit Judge.
For want of a comma, we have this case. It arises from a dispute between a Maine dairy company and its delivery drivers, and it concerns the scope of an exemption from Maine’s overtime law. 26 M.R.S.A. § 664(3). Specifically, if that exemption used a serial comma to mark off the last of the activities that it lists, then the exemption would clearly encompass an activity that the drivers perform. And, in that event, the drivers would plainly fall within the exemption and thus outside the overtime law’s protection. But, as it happens, there is no serial comma to be found…
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