Semicolons and disjunctive ands vs. propaganda, subterfuge, and fraud yesterday in Leesburg, GA, and evidentiary briefs will be received by the judge over the next 20 days.
After patiently listening to Spectra attorneys detail how a 1920s
version of Georgia pipeline eminent domain law had a semicolon
that they claimed separated “in the State of Georgia” from their
pipeline, Judge Smith later remarked that the legislature passing
a bill that removed the semicolon could be used to infer that they
intended to remove the semicolon.
Sabal Trail also tried to argue that the “and” in the same sentence
was a disjunctive that similarly separated.
The judge seemed more interested in the basic question:
does Sabal Trail provide gas to customers within the State of Georgia?
The landowners’ attorney made it even more interesting, referring to Continue reading Grasping at semicolons: Sabal Trail fail in Leesburg
