Posted on 06/01/2022 1:20:30 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
Judges ruled on Tuesday that bumble bees can be classed as fish under California environmental laws.
This unlocks protections for the state's four endangered bumble bee species.
The ruling clarifies the state's confusing classification in its environmental protections.
A trio of judges in California said on Tuesday that bees can be legally classed as a type of fish as part of a ruling that brings added conservation protections for the endangered species.
"The issue presented here is whether the bumble bee, a terrestrial invertebrate, falls within the definition of fish," the judges wrote in their ruling. And, they concluded, it does.
Formerly, the problem for bee-lovers — and lovers of all Californian terrestrial invertebrates — was down to the way protected animals have been classified in the state's laws.
Although four different bee species were classified as endangered in 2018, land invertebrates are not explicitly protected under the state's Endangered Species Act (CESA), which protects endangered "native species or subspecies of a bird, mammal, fish, amphibian, reptile, or plant."....
They also argued that land-based invertebrates have been protected under the category of "fish" under the statute in the past, such as in 1980 when the Trinity bristle snail was protected.
The judges described how California's legislature has wavered for years over whether or not to explicitly include invertebrates in the Act, presumably saving them the trouble of having to expand the definition of fish.
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If men can be women, babies can be garbage, and truth can be misinformation ... why not?
Truth is so last century.
In California, boys can be girls and girls can be trees. So, hell why not.
well, think boi’s can be gurls, so...
“If you could be a tree, what kind of tree would you be?”
Judges and AG’s need to more often than we have ever seen tell legislators and any litigants to quit going to court to obtain what the laws you wrote do not mandate. And when your laws do not mandate what you want, quit blaming AGs and courts for not giving you what you want. When these things are not done then courts are converted from courts to super-legislators by judicial fiat, and worst of all the expectations grow that the courts should keep doing that.
Errant judicial practices, left unchallenged, are changing Constitutional and law meanings and boundaries of the courts, with no Constitutional or legal change inacted by the people’s elected reprentatives.
Judges ruled on Tuesday that bumble bees can be classed as fish under California environmental laws.
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200 or 300 years in the future, people will look back on this age the way we look back on the past when people would be burned at the stake as witches; an irrational unscientific age driven by emotion over logic.
“Do they get to use the fish bathroom now?”
You win today!
They want us all to eat insects and now they’re declaring insects endangered species.
If liberals get their way we won’t be allowed to eat dirt.
It’s now the Babylon Fish.
“Deem it so, and rule accordingly.”
Ain’t that the truth !
I'm not sure the law was the problem. (OK, this law probably was a problem, just not the problem in this case.)
We have lost our courts. We have lost our juries. We have lost our lawmakers. We have lost our citizenry. We have lost our children. We have lost our past. We have lost out present. We have lost our future. We have lost our country...
Well they claim men can be women……
Yes- mine just lie on the bottom the tank. Wet wings i guess.
Yea why not? Bees are fish, boys are girls- what the heck?!
So long as the bees identify as fish then this is okay.
In California.
But not anywhere else.
We have enough clowns in politics to fill a fleet of clown cars...
The manatees were referred to as the fish that taste like beef.
This makes less sense than the Catholics arguing that fish isn’t “meat”.
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