Laws fashioned after Maine may now proliferate. With the legislative genie out of the bottle and opponents in possession of model legislation that has withstood judicial scrutiny, we believe that the march of regulation over time is now inevitable.

Genie in a Bottle

The point about the whole subject is this: Once you open the top on this thing, the genie won’t get back in the bottle.

There isn't any way of putting the genie back in the bottle.

If we pull the genie out of that bottle, I don't know that it ever comes back. If we get to that uncapped year, and we get all sorts of proud men with their backs against the wall, I don't think we ever get back to where we are now. So I hope that doesn't happen.

Once the volatility genie is out of the bottle, he's going to bounce around for awhile.