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It's a really short letter, you can read it here: https://www.mass.gov/doc/naag-letter-to-facebook/download https://www.mass.gov/doc/naag-letter-to-facebook/do
by blakesterz 5y ago
It's a really short letter, you can read it here:
https://www.mass.gov/doc/naag-letter-to-facebook/download https://www.mass.gov/doc/naag-letter-to-facebook/download
Signed by attorneys general of Massachusetts, Nebraska,
Vermont, Tennessee, Alaska, California, Connecticut, Delaware, District
of Columbia, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky,
Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri,
Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York,
North Carolina, Northern Mariana Islands, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon,
Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah,
Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming
(Also, I was curious and had to look up what the plural is and why for a group like this: It’s tricky, because both “attorney” and “general” are nouns, so it seems perfectly legal to just add the “s” to the second word, and that often happens in news reports. “General” here, though, is an adjective, not a noun; you can think of them as “general attorneys.” So the plural goes on the noun, and the proper form is “attorneys general.”)
- mc32 5y agoThe plural in these legal noun phrases is influenced by French grammar convention (unlike English, adjectives take a plural).
- tempodox 5y agoExactly, analogous to “court-martial” (although in that case, “court-martials” is a valid plural form besides “courts-martial”).
- benrbray 5y agoFor those like wondering, that's 40 states plus DC, PR, Guam, and Northern Mariana. The 10 states that did not sign the letter (either because they declined to sign or weren't asked to) are AL, AZ, AK, CO, FL, GA, IN, ND, PA, WV