San Francisco’s soda law blocked by appeals court

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | September 20, 2017 | By Bob Egelko

[Oldeconomybuyer]

San Francisco’s groundbreaking effort to curb soda consumption by requiring health warnings in display ads hit a judicial wall Tuesday when a federal appeals court barred enforcement, saying the messages were one-sided and would violate advertisers’ freedom of speech.

The city ordinance, the first of its kind in the nation, was passed unanimously by the Board of Supervisors in 2015 and was scheduled to take effect in July 2016 but has been put on hold by the courts during a legal challenge by the beverage industry. It would require display ads for sugar-sweetened drinks to devote 20 percent of their space to a warning that drinking such beverages “contributes to obesity, diabetes and tooth decay.”

[Oldeconomybuyer]

The soda nazis:

[Trump20162020]

saying the messages were one-sided and would violate advertisers’ freedom of speech.

But not cigarettes?

[sheana]

Such a diverse, tyrannical group.

[Buckeye McFrog]

The tobacco companies were STOOOOOPID enough to enter into consent decrees that forced them to do stuff like this.

Other industries have learned their lesson.

[CIB-173RDABN]

Because it would be politically incorrect to try and solve real problems, they need to find “safe” problems to solve.

It looks like a diverse group but I suspect every last one of them think exactly alike. It would be like putting the same soda into twelve different cans. They may look different but they are all filled with the same stuff.

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[elcid1970]

“It would be like putting the same soda into twelve different cans. They may look different but they are all filled with the same stuff.”

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[LeonardFMason]

Pictured at gathering to inspect construction of death camps and gas chambers?

[CodeToad]

No health warnings needed for booty busting homosexuals.

[Rebelbase]

They need another black person on the council to achieve national racial parity.