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442:(25 July 2024) the Supreme Court of Ohio four Republican jurists found that “ A diner reading “boneless wings” on a menu would no more believe that the restaurant was warranting the absence of bones in the items than believe that the items were made from chicken wings, just as a person eating “chicken fingers” would know that he had not been served fingers.”
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