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Re: Due Process
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 17 Mar 2000 23:16:40 GMT
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LAR@VOYAGER.NETantispam
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Good example!
Dave Schuler wrote:
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> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bill Farkas writes:
> > Yet if a private property owner wants to have only smokers in his
> > establishment, that should be up to him.
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> Certainly, as a privately-owned entity it should be allowed to admit or
> refuse smokers as it sees fit, without being subject to federal heavy-
> handedness (any more than I as a private citizen should be legally required to
> lock my guns in my own home, just to re-connect with the larger debate!).
>
> This brings up another semi-related question for me, though. Recently I was
> passing through a food court at a local mall, wherein I saw a bright yellow
> "Eat-at-your-own-risk"-type sign plastered across the sneeze guard. I sort of
> know the manager of the place, so I asked him about the sign. He informed me
> that the local health department had surprised them with a spot inspection and
> found the place lacking in key areas of food temperatures, storage practices,
> and one or two other unsavory areas. As a result, the health department put
> up the sign, which resulted in an immediate loss of over 80% of their
> business. My question is this: doesn't this seem in some way to violate or at
> least circumvent due process? There was no appeals process, as far as I'm
> aware, just a summary decision and posting of the warning. Any appeal that
> might have been made would have come after the sign was posted and the damage
> done.
> This isn't very solidly connected with the debate at hand, but the
> discussion brought it to my mind.
This sounds like a massive usurpation.
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