MIKE 'SODAMAYOR': Judge Foils Bloomberg's Big Drink Ban

Good intentions aside, Mayor Mike "SODAMAYOR" Bloomberg's plan to ban large sugary beverages was overturned by a New York State Judge.

Wall Street Journal reports the judge stated that: "The city is "enjoined and permanently restrained from implementing or enforcing the new regulations," New York Supreme Court Judge Milton Tingling decided Monday."


"The regulations are "fraught with arbitrary and capricious consequences," the judge wrote. "The simple reading of the rule leads to the earlier acknowledged uneven enforcement even within a particular city block, much less the city as a whole….the loopholes in this rule effectively defeat the state purpose of the rule."

"Under the first-of-its-kind prohibition approved by the city Board of Health last year, establishments from restaurants to mobile food carts would have been prohibited from selling sugary drinks larger than 16 oz. After a three-month grace period, the city would have started fining violators $200 per sale.

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