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CA Judge May Have Created Huge Challenges For Contractors
ShawnMcCadden.com The Design Builders Blog ^ | September 9, 2014 | Shawn McCadden

Posted on 09/10/2014 6:24:49 PM PDT by representativerepublic

I couldn’t believe it when I read it. A California Superior Court judge by the name of Paul M. Haakenson ordered Lowes to pay $1.6 million dollars for selling 2x4’s that are not really 2” x 4”.

Yes, your read that right!

According to the Marin County, CA district attorney's office Lowes "unlawfully advertised structural dimensional building products for sale." To put it a different way, prosecutors say that if products, including building products like a 2x4 or 2x8, aren’t actually 2” x 4” or 2” x 8” when purchased, consumers are being mislead.

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Ready to go Galt yet?
1 posted on 09/10/2014 6:24:49 PM PDT by representativerepublic
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To: representativerepublic

What an idiot judge....knows nothing about construction


2 posted on 09/10/2014 6:26:21 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: representativerepublic

Can I sue Home Depot for all the “defective” wood used in building my dream house. Maybe I should get around $3,000,000. Seems reasonable to me.


3 posted on 09/10/2014 6:29:54 PM PDT by ProudFossil (" I never did give anyone hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell." Harry Truman)
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To: representativerepublic

This Judge is setting a new low on the idiocy scale.


4 posted on 09/10/2014 6:30:13 PM PDT by House Atreides (ANOTHER CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN FOR CHILDERS 2014 .... Don't reward bad GOPe behavior.)
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To: representativerepublic
That's been the standard forever.

If they sell actual 2"x4" lumber nobody will be able to use it.

5 posted on 09/10/2014 6:30:21 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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To: representativerepublic

Haakenson is a flaming idiot.


6 posted on 09/10/2014 6:31:48 PM PDT by jazusamo (Sometimes I think that this is an era when sanity has become controversial: Thomas Sowell)
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To: representativerepublic
Moron. Besides, I bet the ad didn't say 2x4 INCHES. How does he know there's not some dimensional unit that's 0.78" or whatever. Call it a Lowe. Better yet, call it a "bum-fudge" and tell the judge you're naming it for him and Osama. Stupid defense, I know, but no more stupid than the accusation. After all, ask a stupid question.....
7 posted on 09/10/2014 6:32:03 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: representativerepublic

It’s way worse than that. Have you any idea how much more than $.10 they charged me for 10d nails?


8 posted on 09/10/2014 6:33:38 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (When I first read it, " Atlas Shrugged" was fictional)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“If they sell actual 2”x4” lumber nobody will be able to use it—

Can you explain that to me. I know nothing about this stuff.

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9 posted on 09/10/2014 6:33:40 PM PDT by Mears
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To: representativerepublic
Reminds me of the Subway "foot-long" law suit.
10 posted on 09/10/2014 6:35:00 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (It takes a gun to feed a villageh)
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To: representativerepublic

That’s a special kind of stupid right there. This just illustrates how far we have gone to turn over our country and our lives to complete idiots who are handed law degrees because they embrace the fashionable ideological dogma.


11 posted on 09/10/2014 6:35:10 PM PDT by centurion316
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How much does California have to pay for their deceptive advertising on the lotto? They continually advertise a jackpot of x amount of dollars and then pay you substantially less for taking it in a lump sum.


12 posted on 09/10/2014 6:37:50 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
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To: Mears

I can’t remember why it got called a 2x4 in the first place, maybe that was the rough dimension before milling, but in actuality, a 2x4 is usually about 1-9/16” x 3-1/2”. At 8” nominal and above, the actual dimension is about 3/4” less than the nominal. 1-by’s are about 3/4” thick. The stuff that’s actually 1” thick, like they make wood screen doors out of is called “four square”. It’s been this way as long as I’ve been alive and that’s quite a while.


13 posted on 09/10/2014 6:38:27 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Mears

A piece of wood 2 X 4 would be too big. It wouldn’t fit and the walls would end up too thick.


14 posted on 09/10/2014 6:38:47 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: centurion316

Why do semi-literates use both ‘$’ and ‘dollars’ in the same figure. Department of Redundancy Department?


15 posted on 09/10/2014 6:38:57 PM PDT by FirstFlaBn
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To: representativerepublic
Potential opening for a GEICO commercial here.

"Two by fours aren't really two by four?"

"Yeah, everybody knows that."

"But did you know that..."

16 posted on 09/10/2014 6:39:37 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Nifster

I’m in the industry and have been following this lunacy. 2X4’s began to shrink around 1910. testing showed no discernible lessening of structural strength and more units could be fit on a truck.

The judge is a moron (in the literal sense of the word)who is apparently too highfalutin to step into a lumberyard.


17 posted on 09/10/2014 6:40:00 PM PDT by cyclotic (Join America's premier outdoor adventure association for boys-traillifeusa.com)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Should be marketed and sold with an asterisk, however, explaining the true measurements.


18 posted on 09/10/2014 6:40:42 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: representativerepublic

19 posted on 09/10/2014 6:41:04 PM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: representativerepublic

Aren’t the dimensions what’s left when rough-sawed 2x4 (or whatever) lumber is planed down for smoothness?


20 posted on 09/10/2014 6:41:24 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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