Did Justice Sotomayor goof with ‘little if nothing’ phrase? Stickler law prof sees error

 

Regent University law professor James J. Duan wrote U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor about a phrase she used in a dissent this month. Professor Duane told Sotomayor that she misused a phrase in this sentence: “Little if nothing appears left of the statutory exemptions after today’s constitutional broadside.” In his July 14 letter, he notes that she meant instead to write ‘little or nothing’ or ‘little if anything’.

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