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California Considers $1,000 Fine for Waiters Offering Unsolicited Plastic Straws

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“The Democratic majority leader in California’s lower house has introduced a bill to stop sit-down restaurants from offering customers straws with their beverages unless they specifically request one. Under Calderon’s law, a waiter who serves a drink with an unrequested straw in it would face up to 6 months in jail and a fine of up to $1,000.”

Read more: http://reason.com/blog/2018/01/25/california-bill-would-criminalize-restau

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If the Law Is This Complicated, Why Shouldn’t Ignorance Be an Excuse?

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“America’s judges still cling to the proposition that it’s perfectly fine to lock people up for doing something they had no idea was illegal. But it’s not fine, and the justifications for that palpably unfair rule have only grown more threadbare with time.”

Read more: https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/law-complicated-why-shouldnt-ignorance-be-excuse

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Federal case against Bundy supporters falls apart as jury refuses to convict

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“In a stunning setback to federal prosecutors planning to try the Bundy family patriarch and two adult sons later this year, the jury acquitted Ricky Lovelien and Steven Stewart of all 10 charges, and delivered not-guilty findings on most charges against Scott Drexler and Eric Parker.  More than 30 defendants’ supporters in the courtroom broke into applause after Chief U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro ordered Lovelien and Stewart freed immediately and set Wednesday morning hearings to decide if Parker and Drexler should remain jailed pending a government decision whether to seek a third trial.”

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/08/22/jury-refuses-to-convict-4-in-nevada-ranch-standoff-retrial.html

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He plowed his field; now he faces a $2.8 million fine

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“A farmer faces trial in federal court this summer and a $2.8 million fine for failing to get a permit to plow his field and plant wheat in Tehama County.”

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/05/24/farmer-plowing-fine/339756001/

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Owner of kite-surfing island for Silicon Valley executives faces $4.6 million fine

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“A state water agency has proposed one of its largest fines ever — $4.6 million — against a Bay Area man for allegedly damaging an island by transforming it into a luxury sporting enclave for Silicon Valley executives.  After purchasing the island in 2011, Sweeney sought to revive a decades-old duck hunting club at the island. He launched a kite-surfing outfit with marketing materials that tout its seclusion and convenience for Silicon Valley and Bay Area executives. The San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission issued a cease-and-desist order on April 22, concluding that Sweeney and the club violated two state laws.”

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-bay-area-island-fine-20160518-snap-story.html

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How The Feds Got All That Western Land (and Why It’s a Problem)

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“It should be no concern of people in Washington, DC — 3,000 miles away  — as to how a handful of ranchers want to use a tiny corner of land in rural Oregon. Similarly, taxpayers in, say, Ohio (a net taxpayer state) should not be paying to mitigate the effects of overgrazing by ranchers in Oregon, or to build their water projects.  There are, of course, many legal and constitutional obstacles to decentralizing land ownership, but the political obstacles are numerous as well.  The perennial conflicts in the West over land seizures by environmentalists, regulatory battles, micromanagement, and overgrazing all illustrate how much of a failure the federal land ownership scheme has been.”

https://mises.org/blog/how-feds-got-all-western-land-and-why-its-problem

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Justin Raimondo: What the Oregon Standoff Is Really About

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“While the focus among vaunted ‘civil libertarians’ is the resentencing and mandatory minimums, the fact is that the Hammonds should never have been prosecuted to begin with. Their long agony is a clear case of government persecution motivated by avarice and politics—for this is a warning to anyone who opposes the federal government’s campaign to retain and expand its ownership of huge swathes of Western land. They currently control more than 80 percent of Nevada; approximately half of California, Utah, Oregon, Idaho, Arizona, and New Mexico; 42 percent of Wyoming; 36 percent of Colorado; and 30 percent of Washington and Montana.  And they want more.”

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/what-is-the-oregon-standoff-really-about/

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Standoff In Oregon After Feds Convict Ranchers Under Terrorism Statute

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“Two ranchers from Burns, Oregon have been convicted of terrorism because twice over the last decade-and-a-half they did what ranchers have been doing since arriving in the west.  The father and son performed controlled burns.  When the men were initially sentenced a judge balked at the ridiculously harsh guidelines and was lenient.  Washington, D.C. appealed and a liberal court in San Francisco ordered the ranchers back to prison.  The ranchers also bowed to a government demand that if they sell land some concoction known as the BLM gets right of first refusal.  As the Hammond Ranch falters with its operators behind bars the federal beast can devour even more ground.”

http://newsradio1310.com/241263/

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E.P.A. Broke Law With Social Media Push for Water Rule

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“The Environmental Protection Agency engaged in ‘covert propaganda’ and violated federal law when it blitzed social media to urge the public to back an Obama administration rule intended to better protect the nation’s streams and surface waters, congressional auditors have concluded.  The effort violated federal law, the G.A.O. said, because as it ricocheted around the Internet, many people who received the message would not have known that it was written by the E.P.A., making it covert propaganda. Penalties include fines and even possible jail time. But even Republicans on Capitol Hill say it will not be enforced that way.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/15/us/politics/epa-broke-the-law-by-using-social-media-to-push-water-rule-auditor-finds.html

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Forcing Green Politics on Pension Funds

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“The beauty of the stock market is that no one can tell you where to put your money—until now. Last month the Obama administration’s Labor Department issued Interpretive Bulletin 2015-01, which tells pension funds what factors to use when choosing investments, including climate change. Only a few tax lawyers noticed, but with U.S. pensions at $9 trillion, this is a gross power grab that will hurt the retirees it claims to protect.”

http://www.wsj.com/articles/forcing-green-politics-on-pension-funds-1447891401

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