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Maria S. Lazar: “They don't always write things the best way that they…”

Featuring: Maria S. Lazar, Judge, Wisconsin Court of Appeals, District II

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Published | Video Starts at 25:47

And we do our best job to do that. And now there'll be times where the legislature will say something. And again, if there's any legislators watching, I apologize. They don't always write things the best way that they should. They don't always say the right things. They don't always put the comma in where they're supposed to. And then we look at it and say, well, clearly that's not what the legislator meant, but it's what they wrote, and we have to follow what they wrote. (25:47–25:56)

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Asserts that legislators sometimes write laws with errors or ambiguities.

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