A judge Monday overturned Mayor Bloomberg's controversial ban on large sugary soda, one day before the regulation was to take effect.
Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Milton Tingling Jr. declared the ban “arbitrary and capricious,” agreeing with several soda and business groups that had challenged the prohibition in court.
The ruling was a stinging setback for the mayor, whose administration enacted the regulation in the face of criticism that he was turning the city into a “nanny state.”
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“The loopholes in this rule effectively defeat the stated purpose of the rule. It is arbitrary and capricious because it applies to some but not all food establishments in the city” and because it applies to some sugary drinks but exempts others, the judge said.
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2 comments:
Democrats haven't looked at the Constitution for so long it is "Greek" to them. It also helps when a person doesn't regard the Constitution as a vaporous apparition that appears to be whatever you feel like it ought to be in your case at any given moment.
New York judges and justices are as liberal as they come.
This "victory" will be short-lived.
It will be overturned on appeal.
New Yorkers have nobody to blame but themselves for electing a tyrant like Michael Bloomberg.
Their chickens have come home to roost.
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