Eugene Volokh discovers a Mississippi statute that appears to criminalize students’ possession of scissors in many instances, and a South Carolina statute that goes even further.
Chronicling the high cost of our legal system
by Walter Olson on April 30, 2009
Eugene Volokh discovers a Mississippi statute that appears to criminalize students’ possession of scissors in many instances, and a South Carolina statute that goes even further.
Tagged as: guns, Mississippi, schools, South Carolina

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