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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — It all came down to a missing comma. In the end, a court allowed drivers for a Maine dairy to go forward with their dispute over overtime pay.

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Lock of Abraham Lincoln’s hair sells for more than $81,000 at auction Drivers for Oakhurst Dairy in Portland sued in federal court seeking more than $10 million in overtime. The company argued they were exempt under the law.

Maine law says overtime doesn’t apply to certain duties and lists them, including “packing for shipment or distribution of” foods.

The dairy interpreted that as packing food for shipment or distributing food. The drivers’ suit interprets it as packing food for shipment or packing food for distribution. If it is meant to cover distribution without packing, they say, it should have a comma: “packing for shipment, or distribution of ….”

Because the drivers do no packing, they say, they should be given overtime.

The federal appeals court agreed with the drivers’ interpretation.

As Circuit Judge David Barron explained: “For want of a comma, we have this case.”