Gimme an 'S': The High Court's Grammatical Divide

Jonathan Starble reports in Legal Times

As one of its final acts last term, the U.S. Supreme Court issued Kansas v. Marsh [53 pp. pdf], a case involving the constitutionality of a state death-penalty statute. The 5-4 decision exposed the deep divide that exists among the nation's intellectual elite regarding one of society's most troubling issues -- namely, whether the possessive form of a singular noun ending with the letter "s" requires an additional "s" after the apostrophe.

Looks like it's too soon to raise the issue of page limits on opinions like those on briefs.

(via Matthew J. Franck at Bench Memos)