Baylen Linnekin on New York City's Loser Soda Ban
This week the New York State Court of Appeals, the state's highest court, heard New York City's appeal of the city's soda ban. The ban has already been soundly rejected ("slammed down," as one New York news station puts it) by two lower courts in the state. It's also faced furious opposition from millions of New Yorkers and Americans around the country of all political and ideological stripes, and has served to galvanize the cause of food freedom like perhaps no other issue to date.
This week's hearing served as a reminder that the ban may be on its last legs. If the Court of Appeals upholds the lower court rulings, writes Baylen Linnekin, then the ban is as dead as he predicted it likely would be back in August.