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.

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