GoesStation
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I'm coming out of retirement (from usingenglish.com) to respond to this. No, you can never omit the s except, according to some style guides, after a noun that ends in s."For convenience' sake..."
If we can write the above can we write the following:
For John' sake....
I much prefer to keep the s in that case, too, because it matches the way I say it: John's book, Chris's piano, etc. If you do that then you won't have to worry about the question at all.