Judicial activism at it's too funny worst

[Boca]

Only in California would a judge feel it necessary to defer to the starlets, harlots, muscle beachers and other assorted ignorants in the Golden State to protect their stupid asses from lumber.

Yep...it took a District Attorney 's investigation and a Judge, both on the taxpayer's payroll and with apparently nothing more urgent to do, to protect California's indigenous liberal idiots ( who incidently are allowed to vote) from buying a 2 x 4 that doesn't meet heir expectations.

The order, handed down by Judge Paul M. Haakenson, came as a response to a case involving claims by the Marin County, Calif., district attorney’s office that the retailer "unlawfully advertised structural dimensional building products for sale".

According to the judgement, the retailer was ordered to pay $1.47 million in civil penalties and costs of the investigation, and an additional $150,000 to fund further consumer protection-related activities.​

What's more interesting than the implied ignorance of Californians, is that this "unlawful" act was only perpetrated by Lowe's? What about Home Depot? What about any mom and pop lumber yards?

Sounds like the district Attorney and the judge had a grudge with Lowe's and used the powers of their offices to settle it...sorta of like Lois Lerner using the IRS.

(This thread is probably not the place to question the she-faggot Mayor of Houston demanding pastor's of churches submit their sermons for her review.)

Yes Virginia, liberalism is a disease.

 

[Bugsy McGurk]

Only in California would a judge feel it necessary to defer to the starlets, harlots, muscle beachers and other assorted ignorants in the Golden State to protect their stupid asses from lumber.

Yep...it took a District Attorney 's investigation and a Judge, both on the taxpayer's payroll and with apparently nothing more urgent to do, to protect California's indigenous liberal idiots ( who incidently are allowed to vote) from buying a 2 x 4 that doesn't meet heir expectations.

The order, handed down by Judge Paul M. Haakenson, came as a response to a case involving claims by the Marin County, Calif., district attorney’s office that the retailer "unlawfully advertised structural dimensional building products for sale".

According to the judgement, the retailer was ordered to pay $1.47 million in civil penalties and costs of the investigation, and an additional $150,000 to fund further consumer protection-related activities.​

What's more interesting than the implied ignorance of Californians, is that this "unlawful" act was only perpetrated by Lowe's? What about Home Depot? What about any mom and pop lumber yards?

I'm guessing the district Attorney and the judge had a grudge with Lowe's and used the powers of their offices to settle it...sorta of like Lois Lerner using the IRS.

Huh? Why do you think Lowe's should be free to mislead consumers?

 

[connieb]

Only in California would a judge feel it necessary to defer to the starlets, harlots, muscle beachers and other assorted ignorants in the Golden State to protect their stupid asses from lumber.

Yep...it took a District Attorney 's investigation and a Judge, both on the taxpayer's payroll and with apparently nothing more urgent to do, to protect California's indigenous liberal idiots ( who incidently are allowed to vote) from buying a 2 x 4 that doesn't meet heir expectations.

The order, handed down by Judge Paul M. Haakenson, came as a response to a case involving claims by the Marin County, Calif., district attorney’s office that the retailer "unlawfully advertised structural dimensional building products for sale".

According to the judgement, the retailer was ordered to pay $1.47 million in civil penalties and costs of the investigation, and an additional $150,000 to fund further consumer protection-related activities.​

What's more interesting than the implied ignorance of Californians, is that this "unlawful" act was only perpetrated by Lowe's? What about Home Depot? What about any mom and pop lumber yards?

Sounds like the district Attorney and the judge had a grudge with Lowe's and used the powers of their offices to settle it...sorta of like Lois Lerner using the IRS.

(This thread is probably not the place to question the she-faggot Mayor of Houston demanding pastor's of churches submit their sermons for her review.)

Yes Virginia, liberalism is a disease.

Oh for the love of God. Who the F doesn't know that 2x4 isn't actaully 2 x4? And, if you are that freaking stupid lack that basic knowledge ( and perhaps a tape measure) , perhaps you should not actually be building anything with them. This entire world has been conformed to the lowest common denominator. Instead of weeding the idiots out of the population by natural selection through the suffering and misery that would natural befall those kind of idiots, we actually making things easier to for them. Thank you liberals for catering to the stupid, the ignorant, and the useless. You have not only created an added burden to the rest of the normally functioning population by having to continue to drag that deadweight along, you have saddled us with an entire host of regulations designed to force the rest of us to compensate for their ignorance.

 

[Bugsy McGurk]

Oh for the love of God. Who the F doesn't know that 2x4 isn't actaully 2 x4? And, if you are that freaking stupid lack that basic knowledge ( and perhaps a tape measure) , perhaps you should not actually be building anything with them. This entire world has been conformed to the lowest common denominator. Instead of weeding the idiots out of the population by natural selection through the suffering and misery that would natural befall those kind of idiots, we actually making things easier to for them. Thank you liberals for catering to the stupid, the ignorant, and the useless. You have not only created an added burden to the rest of the normally functioning population by having to continue to drag that deadweight along, you have saddled us with an entire host of regulations designed to force the rest of us to compensate for their ignorance.

Lowe's settled the case. So while they recognized that their ads were misleading, GOP droids can't do the same.

;-)

 

[Fast Eddy]

Stupid country just getting stupider.

 

[gigi]

Lowe's settled the case. So while they recognized that their ads were misleading, GOP droids can't do the same.

;-)

So what are you saying here? That the outcome should prove that the judges aren't activists who legislated from the bench and that the plaintiffs in the case won fair and square?

 

[Bugsy McGurk]

So what are you saying here? That the outcome should prove that the judges aren't activists who legislated from the bench and that the plaintiffs in the case won fair and square?

Hello?

It was a SETTLEMENT.

Yikes.

 

[Bernard_Fokke]

Another jerk off liberal California judge.

Anyone with a lick of sense knows the actual dimensions of a 2x4, I'm sure glad I left the State of Confusion

 

[gigi]

Hello?

It was a SETTLEMENT.

Yikes.

"The order, handed down by Judge Paul M. Haakenson, came as a response to a case involving claims by the Marin County, Calif., district attorney’s office that the retailer "unlawfully advertised structural dimensional building products for sale".

According to the judgement, the retailer was ordered to pay $1.47 million in civil penalties and costs of the investigation, and an additional $150,000 to fund further consumer protection-related activities."

Lowes may have worked something about afterward, but there was definitely a judgement, made by a judge, against them.

 

[Bugsy McGurk]

"The order, handed down by Judge Paul M. Haakenson, came as a response to a case involving claims by the Marin County, Calif., district attorney’s office that the retailer "unlawfully advertised structural dimensional building products for sale".

According to the judgement, the retailer was ordered to pay $1.47 million in civil penalties and costs of the investigation, and an additional $150,000 to fund further consumer protection-related activities."

Lowes may have worked something about afterward, but there was definitely a judgement, made by a judge, against them.

There MAY have been a settlement?

I guess that's a Republican's way of saying there WAS a settlement.

;-)

 

[write on]

Only in California would a judge feel it necessary to defer to the starlets, harlots, muscle beachers and other assorted ignorants in the Golden State to protect their stupid asses from lumber.

Yep...it took a District Attorney 's investigation and a Judge, both on the taxpayer's payroll and with apparently nothing more urgent to do, to protect California's indigenous liberal idiots ( who incidently are allowed to vote) from buying a 2 x 4 that doesn't meet heir expectations.

The order, handed down by Judge Paul M. Haakenson, came as a response to a case involving claims by the Marin County, Calif., district attorney’s office that the retailer "unlawfully advertised structural dimensional building products for sale".

According to the judgement, the retailer was ordered to pay $1.47 million in civil penalties and costs of the investigation, and an additional $150,000 to fund further consumer protection-related activities.​

What's more interesting than the implied ignorance of Californians, is that this "unlawful" act was only perpetrated by Lowe's? What about Home Depot? What about any mom and pop lumber yards?

Sounds like the district Attorney and the judge had a grudge with Lowe's and used the powers of their offices to settle it...sorta of like Lois Lerner using the IRS.

(This thread is probably not the place to question the she-faggot Mayor of Houston demanding pastor's of churches submit their sermons for her review.)

Yes Virginia, liberalism is a disease.

Being a carpenter, it is hard for me to fathom that no one would know the actual dimensions of a 2x4, 2x6, etc. but at the same time, Lowes markets itself to the 'do it yourselfer' and that is where it makes most of its profits.

It cuts both ways....so to speak.

 

[Craig]

Only in California would a judge feel it necessary to defer to the starlets, harlots, muscle beachers and other assorted ignorants in the Golden State to protect their stupid asses from lumber.

Yep...it took a District Attorney 's investigation and a Judge, both on the taxpayer's payroll and with apparently nothing more urgent to do, to protect California's indigenous liberal idiots ( who incidently are allowed to vote) from buying a 2 x 4 that doesn't meet heir expectations.

The order, handed down by Judge Paul M. Haakenson, came as a response to a case involving claims by the Marin County, Calif., district attorney’s office that the retailer "unlawfully advertised structural dimensional building products for sale".

According to the judgement, the retailer was ordered to pay $1.47 million in civil penalties and costs of the investigation, and an additional $150,000 to fund further consumer protection-related activities.​

What's more interesting than the implied ignorance of Californians, is that this "unlawful" act was only perpetrated by Lowe's? What about Home Depot? What about any mom and pop lumber yards?

Sounds like the district Attorney and the judge had a grudge with Lowe's and used the powers of their offices to settle it...sorta of like Lois Lerner using the IRS.

(This thread is probably not the place to question the she-faggot Mayor of Houston demanding pastor's of churches submit their sermons for her review.)

Yes Virginia, liberalism is a disease.

The Judge was appointed by Ahnold...


San Rafael, CA -- Marin County District Attorney Edward S. Berberian announced that Marin County Superior Court Judge Paul M. Haakenson has ordered North Carolina-based Lowe’s Home Centers, LLC, to pay $1.6 million as part of a settlement of a civil consumer protection action prosecuted by the Marin County District Attorney's Office, along with four other California district attorneys.

The judgment is the culmination of a civil enforcement action filed in Marin County Superior Court and led by the district attorneys of Marin, Los Angeles, Monterey, San Joaquin and Stanislaus counties, claiming that Lowe’s stores throughout the state unlawfully advertised structural dimensional building products for sale and those advertisements stated, contained, and described product dimensions that were not the actual product dimensions. Structural dimensional building products are products used in construction and home improvement projects and which are commonly sold by reference to three dimensions (i.e., length, width/depth, and thickness). In some instances, Lowe's advertisements restated misleading or inaccurate product dimensions provided by the manufacturers or other suppliers of the product.

District Attorney Berberian stated, "Consumers should expect when making product purchases that retailers are providing accurate information especially when misinformation could adversely affect building projects that more often than not rely on precise measurements."

The judgment requires Lowe's to immediately remove products from sale or correct false, misleading, deceptive or inaccurate product descriptions when Lowe's knows or should know that the product descriptions are untrue or misleading.

Lowe’s was cooperative throughout the investigation and has adopted and implemented enhanced policies and procedures designed to eliminate the use of misleading or inaccurate product dimensions in their advertisements.

Under the judgment, Lowe’s must pay $1.47 million in civil penalties and costs of the investigation. An additional $150,000 will be paid to fund further consumer protection-related activities including quality control and price verification programs conducted by the California Department of Food and Agriculture, Division of Measurement Standards. Lowe's will be bound under the terms of a permanent injunction prohibiting similar future violations of law.


http://www.marincounty.org/main/county-press-releases/press-releases/2014/lowes-settlement

 

[Boca]

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According to the judgement, the retailer was ordered to pay $1.47 million in civil penalties and costs of the investigation, and an additional $150,000 to fund further consumer protection-related activities."

Lessee, to further protect California consumers, could the next order from the bench be that jewelry retailers must, in the interest of truth in labeling, specify that 18 karat gold is not produced from 18 carrots, or that sterling silver is not made by the racist former owner of the Los Angeles Clippers?

And Lowe's probably should get ahead of the curve and specify that 6 penny nails are not six cents each.

 

[Bugsy McGurk]

Lessee, to further protect California consumers, could the next order from the bench be that jewelry retailers must, in the interest of truth in labeling, specify that 18 karat gold is not produced from 18 carrots, or that sterling silver is not made by the racist former owner of the Los Angeles Clippers?

And Lowe's probably should get ahead of the curve and specify that 6 penny nails are not worth six cents each.

You people are so bizarre.

Loew's itself agrees to a settlement to end their deceptive ads, but you still insist that there's something wrong with ending the deception.

The right wing echo chambers issues its irrational instructions to you droids, and off you go.

 

[trapdoor]

You people are so bizarre.

Loew's itself agrees to a settlement to end their deceptive ads, but you still insist that there's something wrong with ending the deception.

The right wing echo chambers issues its irrational instructions to you droids, and off you go.

There's nothing "deceptive" about advertising a 2x4 stud as a 2x4. They've always been 1.5x3.5 -- they're 2X4 when they're milled, and then they shrink.

 

[Craig]

Oh for the love of God. Who the F doesn't know that 2x4 isn't actaully 2 x4? And, if you are that freaking stupid lack that basic knowledge ( and perhaps a tape measure) , perhaps you should not actually be building anything with them. This entire world has been conformed to the lowest common denominator. Instead of weeding the idiots out of the population by natural selection through the suffering and misery that would natural befall those kind of idiots, we actually making things easier to for them. Thank you liberals for catering to the stupid, the ignorant, and the useless. You have not only created an added burden to the rest of the normally functioning population by having to continue to drag that deadweight along, you have saddled us with an entire host of regulations designed to force the rest of us to compensate for their ignorance.

All that over honesty in labeling.

 

[Bugsy McGurk]

There's nothing "deceptive" about advertising a 2x4 stud as a 2x4. They've always been 1.5x3.5 -- they're 2X4 when they're milled, and then they shrink.

First, you should stop pretending you're familiar with the settlement. You clearly haven't read it.

Second, it is a SETTLEMENT. Lowe's agreed to it terms. You GOP droids should stop carping about it.

 

[Craig]

There's nothing "deceptive" about advertising a 2x4 stud as a 2x4. They've always been 1.5x3.5 -- they're 2X4 when they're milled, and then they shrink.

Yes, they shrink. No...they have NOT always been 1.5 x 3.5.

http://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/documnts/misc/miscpub_6409.pdf

 

[trapdoor]

Yes, they shrink. No...they have NOT always been 1.5 x 3.5.

http://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/documnts/misc/miscpub_6409.pdf

It's still not deceptive -- or if it is it amounts to standard industry practice.

 

[Craig]

It's still not deceptive -- or if it is it amounts to standard industry practice.

Well...it kinda is. And Lowe's agreed.

Now...I was schooled in the buyer beware world, so this bit of absurdity makes me laugh. If a board is 1.5 x 3.5, it is not a "2x4". It is a "1.5 x 3.5".

"Industry practice" means the finished product is mislabeled.