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03-30-2023 | 12:12 AM

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Monkeywizz

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I blame the MAN. The MAN always keeping us down.

03-30-2023 | 05:31 AM

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nene

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Originally Posted by CordovaCA

What a colassal waste of time, money and resources.
Par for the course in California. No wonder so many businesses are fleeing. Record surplus to record deficit in 1 year.

Their loss, they won't be able to ride the $30Billion CA bullet train from Modesto to Fresno when it opens in 2035. Jokes on them.....

03-30-2023 | 06:09 AM

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rickair7777

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From: Engines Turn or People Swim

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Originally Posted by CordovaCA

What a colassal waste of time, money and resources.
Par for the course in California. No wonder so many businesses are fleeing. Record surplus to record deficit in 1 year.

In this case it wasn't really CA, it was a judge who interpreted an existing law, and the judge may have been completely correct based on the language of the law. The legislature apparently didn't foresee the issue with crew when they wrote the law, but they (and the governor) fixed it quickly enough.

In some cases the judicial system can find enough wiggle room in a law to apply a common sense interpretation. But only up to point, take that too far and now you have activist judges making up their own laws. If the language isn't tight enough, the correct judicial process is to send it back to the folks who wrote it, who do have a legal and constitutional mandate to change it as needed. That appears to be what happened here.

03-30-2023 | 06:13 AM

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Originally Posted by cesnacaptn

Do you blame employees, businesses or government for this “colossal waste of time?”

The employees who sued, they knew the industry they were in, and they knew the airplanes can't pull over to the side of the road for a 30 minute lunch break.

This was not about employees who believed they were wronged, these people were angry about something else and lashed out any way they could which turned out to be an existing law which had language open to interpretation.

I don't recall any other FA groups or unions joining them in this... probably because they didn't want their bases closed.