Jonathan Starble
Legal Times
October 17, 2006
As one of its final acts last term, the U.S. Supreme Court issued Kansas v. Marsh, 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.
So, would any possessive be Stephens' or Stephens's? How about the Dallas Association of Law Librarians' or Librarians's? Any nitpicky grammarians out there?
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