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Editor's Note: Senate Judiciary Committee hearings continue today with third-party testimony on Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch. Follow the hearings throughout the day on our live blog.

Can InfiLaw schools be had on the cheap, and would they be worth it?

Mar 23, 2017, 8:00 am CDT

Live blog of Gorsuch confirmation hearings, Day 4: Filibuster expected

Mar 23, 2017, 7:00 am CDT

Experts say AI isn't replacing lawyers, but it can make them more efficient

Mar 23, 2017, 6:30 am CDT

Live blog of confirmation hearings, Day 3: Dems try to pin down Gorsuch on abortion, gay marriage

Mar 22, 2017, 8:33 pm CDT

With Harvard Law taking the GRE as admissions test, what does that mean for other schools?

Mar 22, 2017, 4:43 pm CDT

Virginia governor formally pardons 'Norfolk Four' wrongly convicted in 1997 rape and murder case

Mar 22, 2017, 3:30 pm CDT

Supreme Court rules schools must provide special ed students a chance to make 'meaningful progress'

Mar 22, 2017, 2:51 pm CDT

What grammar battles do you find yourself fighting?

Mar 22, 2017, 1:53 pm CDT

Copyright law protects decorative features on cheerleading uniform, SCOTUS rules

Mar 22, 2017, 12:25 pm CDT

Deutsche Bank will refuse to pay UK and European law firms for work done by junior attorneys

Mar 22, 2017, 11:35 am CDT

ABA decries latest violent attack aimed at Syrian judicial system

Mar 22, 2017, 9:40 am CDT

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Question of the Week

What grammar battles do you find yourself fighting?

Last week, it was widely reported that the lack of a so-called Oxford comma made a Maine law regarding overtime pay ambiguous, according to the Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. An opinion by Judge David Barron interpreted the law in favor of dairy workers who distribute milk. "For want of a comma, we have this case," the court said.

Then this week at Above the Law, the anonymous law professor LawProfBlawg wrote a column that also referenced the Oxford comma ruling. However, this post focused primarily on the trend away from double spaces after a period. "I have started a White House petition to require the federal government to add that extra space at the end of the sentence to all documents and to use the Oxford comma," the blogger writes. "I'm tired of people telling me to wear the cargo shorts of single-spaced efficiency. I'm done with the looks of judgment and contempt."

So this week, we ask you: What grammar or presentation battles do you find yourself fighting? If not the Oxford comma or spaces after a period, something related to parenthesis or brackets, perhaps?

Answer in the comments.

Read the answers to last week's question: Did you take note of the US News rankings when deciding on a law school?

Featured answer:

Posted by American of African Descent: "I paid attention to the rankings only in the sense that I wanted to go to a Top 30 school. I turned down a Top 5 and a Top 15 because I received a full scholarship from a school ranked slightly lower. As a result, though, I had no debt after graduation and didn't have to put up with the scut work that is the rite of passage for so many associates in BigLaw."