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No, it wasn’t “activist” to strike down Bloomberg’s soda ban

I respond at Cato to a remarkably lame piece by Slate’s Emily Bazelon. Earlier on the case here and here.

Filed under: constitutional law, judges, Michael Bloomberg, soft drinks, WO writings

  • By Walter Olson
  • March 18, 2013
  • One Comment

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  • “Activist” has become a pejorative that means “A decision that annoys me”.

    Bob

    • March 18, 2013 4:18 PM
    • By Bob Lipton

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