Much Ado About A Comma

It hasn't even been officially published yet, but Wall Street Journal Law Blog calls a piece in an upcoming issue of Scribes a "must-read polemic."  Kenneth Adams, the author of "Bamboozled by a Comma: The Second Circuit’s Misdiagnosis of Ambiguity in American International Group, Inc. v. Bank of America Corp.," attacks as spurious the principle of construction that if in a sentence a series of nouns, noun phrases, or clauses is followed by a modifier and the modifier is preceded by a comma, the modifier applies to the entire series, not just the final element in the series. Adams told Law Blog that the Second Circuit opinion "just really stuck in his craw."