[jacketree]

Shouldn't we be blaming the lawmakers instead of the lawyers? The state legislature passed this law, and there's no requirement that state lawmakers possess a JD. There are plenty of reasons to think that lawyers will try to find ambiguity in poorly drafted legislation, but no reason to think lawyers, in the first place, did the drafting...

I'd bet a box of donuts that many if not most of the lawmakers were once lawyers, and regardless of the predominant backgrounds of Maine's legislators; lawyers did, in the first place, do the drafting; or at least the editing.

Rule 6:  Lawyers should be blamed for everything. Even if they aren't at fault.

(There is no Rule Number 6!!)

[jacketree]

Shouldn't we be blaming the lawmakers instead of the lawyers? The state legislature passed this law, and there's no requirement that state lawmakers possess a JD. There are plenty of reasons to think that lawyers will try to find ambiguity in poorly drafted legislation, but no reason to think lawyers, in the first place, did the drafting...

I'd bet a box of donuts that many if not most of the lawmakers were once lawyers, and regardless of the predominant backgrounds of Maine's legislators; lawyers did, in the first place, do the drafting; or at least the editing.

Rule 6:  Lawyers should be blamed for everything. Even if they aren't at fault.

(There is no Rule Number 6!!)