Quin Hillyer: A real waste of a lawsuit

By Quin Hillyer

Published October 20, 2006 4:00am ET

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Quin Hillyer: A real waste of a lawsuit — FILE - This Aug. 24, 2010 file photo shows chickens in Sparks, Md. The Obama administration is overhauling poultry plant inspections for the first time in more than 50 years, a move it says could result in 5,000 fewer foodborne illnesses each year. The final rules announced Thursday would reduce the number of government poultry inspectors by around a fourth. But those that remain will focus more on food safety than quality, requiring them to pull more birds off the line for closer inspections and encouraging more testing for pathogens. There would also be more inspectors checking the facilities to make sure they are clean. (AP Photo/Rob Carr, File) | Rob Carr

Politicians frequently engage in long, pitched battles over merely incremental changes in law.

Now, however, the governor of Arkansas and the attorney general of Oklahoma are fighting over an issue that some might say is purely excremental.

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