- Judge Kozinski, writing for Ninth Circuit panel, declares Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s harassment of whaling ships to fall under piracy law as covered by international treaty [Trial Insider, Julian Ku, Kevin Jon Heller, Eugene Kontorovich and more and yet more, SSCS’s black skull flag via Wikipedia]
- California Assemblyman Mike Gatto [D-Silver Lake] introduces AB 227, which would reform notorious Prop 65 by giving business 14 days to fix lack of warning before entitling lawyer to bounty [his blog, Dem caucus, Burbank Leader]
- Unintended, unsanitary consequences of plastic bag bans (Ramesh Ponnuru/ Bloomberg) And theft too? [Seattle Times]
- Writer who joined the circus for several days reports on Ringling Bros. elephant controversy: [Bill McMorris/Washington Free Beacon (quotes me), earlier]
- Study finds new CAFE fuel economy standards far less efficient than taxes in promoting conservation [Alex Tabarrok]
- Now Mark Bittman is being alarmist about cosmetics [ACSH, background]
- Overcriminalization looms large for Gulf Coast outdoor businesses, says TPPF’s Vikrant Reddy [FoxNews]
Filed under: Alex Kozinski, animal rights, CAFE, cosmetics, environment, Mark Bittman, Prop 65
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Judge Kozinski, writing for Ninth Circuit panel, declares Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s harassment of whaling ships to fall under piracy law …
I wonder if The New Yorker will be updating this story …
A Reporter at Large
Neptune’s Navy
Paul Watson’s wild crusade to save the oceans.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/11/05/071105fa_fact_khatchadourian#ixzz2MILZhCWg
Overcriminalization did not begin yesterday. More than 40 years ago, I was warned by a Florida Fish And Game officer that my throwing a small rock at a squirrel was “take, or attempt to take, game out of season”. It has only become worse.
@John: However, it has taken on a different nature. Forty years ago that was considered a bad thing for a kid to do, at most warranting a call to Mom & Dad. Today it is Environmental Terrorism, to be charged as a felony, and even if not prosecuted as one, the felony arrest is still on the kid’s electronic record and pops up every time a records check is done.
The decision to arrest and the charge to enter in the person’s records is fairly much an unfettered one by a cop (or maybe a quasi-cop like a game warden) at the lowest level. But, once the entry is made, the record is nearly always permanent, as are its consequences.
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