Is it "a simple comma"? Or is it a very intentional comma? The courts debating commas, at least in circumstances of this sort, strikes me as a particularly farcical consequence of modern justice systems.
Can't we ask legislators to clarify their own legislation?
Can't we ask legislators to clarify their own legislation?
At the same time I do believe that this reading wasn't the intended one, so the law was badly written.
What makes court battles about this so annoying is that it turns laws from, in this case, rules about ethical businesses into word games.