AnneBonny

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[–] AnneBonny 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

“There’s no legislation to describe this exact situation. So no enforcement is possible until a judgement is made to decide what needs enforcement.”

Yeah, law enforcement shouldn't be able to throw people in jail (or perform other punitive actions) for things that are not prohibited by law. The law should be applied equally, with a minimum amount of discretion permitted. You only have to look at drug laws to see what happens when law enforcement has latitude and exercises discretion about the manner in which the law should be enforced.

If there’s any give, the historically glacial judicial system must make a decision. Allowing companies to stomp all over everything, with little to no oversight.

When executive agencies are permitted to decide how strictly a law or regulation must be enforced, they rarely choose to enforce it more strictly. Any time something bad happens, you can usually see that it was a direct result of loosening enforcement of some regulation. This shit happens over and over and over again.

Regulatory Blowout: How Regulatory Failures Made the BP Disaster Possible, and How the System Can Be Fixed to Avoid a Recurrence

Regulatory Failure 101: What the Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank Reveals

How FDA Failures Contributed to the Opioid Crisis

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It’s a decision decided to rob the legislation of any leway to the executive.

The Chevron case was ruled on in 1984. Did the executive branch have zero leeway prior to 1984? No.

[–] AnneBonny -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

What pre-Chevron rulings demonstrate a court that not deferring to an agency's interpretation of the law is a problem?

[–] AnneBonny -1 points 2 years ago

I think "smuggling of persons" is the most appropriate charge, but I'm not a lawyer.

Sec. 20.05. SMUGGLING OF PERSONS.

https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PE/htm/PE.20.htm

[–] AnneBonny 1 points 2 years ago

I guess things are worse than I thought.

[–] AnneBonny 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

What happens if people on the right adopt that strategy?

[–] AnneBonny 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You're moving the goal posts. You said:

The only people impacted were the “defrauded investors.

[–] AnneBonny 2 points 2 years ago
[–] AnneBonny 23 points 2 years ago (4 children)

The only people impacted were the “defrauded investors.

I don't know where you got that idea.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has decided that Theranos' Newark, California, facility poses "immediate jeopardy to patient safety."

In December 2013, a lab inspector found that the lab didn't meet the required standards for at least 10 different blood tests.

Despite the changes that Theranos implemented after the 2013 inspection, the company's California lab failed even the simplest of tests the next year. The company obtained "unsatisfactory" scores — 70 percent and 40 percent — for two blood typing tests in early 2014,

In April 2015, Theranos was caught once again skipping over a fundamental safety procedure, at a lab in Scottsdale, Arizona. Theranos couldn't produce data showing that its staff has tested the lab's commercial instruments before using them on customer samples,

https://www.theverge.com/2016/1/27/10853340/government-says-theranos-lab-poses-immediate-threat-to-public-safety

[–] AnneBonny -4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm not defending Abbott's operation.

[–] AnneBonny 6 points 2 years ago

Don’t get fooled into “it’s only human trafficking if it’s transporting for sex/profit”. It’s a much broader definition

I'll have to think about this. Thanks for responding.

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