Posted on 05/15/2020 1:33:58 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A member of the Monterey County District Attorney’s Office said the Salinas store was warned they were in violation of CALIFORNIA BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE 17200
The Monterey County District Attorney's Office is putting another Central Coast business on notice for potentially violating the county's shelter-in-place order. The DA's office warned Hobby Lobby in Salinas that they were in violation of California Business and Professions Code 17200:
"As used in this chapter, unfair competition shall mean and include any unlawful, unfair or fraudulent business act or practice and unfair, deceptive, untrue or misleading advertising."
A representative of the DA's office said this is a civil violation and not a criminal statute.
One customer who was inside the store at the time said the manager told them to they could not sell them non-essential items.
"Unless customers were buying masks or fabric for PPE then they'd have to leave their purchases," Angela Aguilar said referring to items that had not yet been purchased. "I was saying I'll buy a piece of fabric if I have to just let me get my items and they said, 'No that's not the point.'"
One KSBW viewer sent in an email they received from the Monterey County DA's office saying they would investigate the store after they complained about potential violations.
The DA's office said they are not out looking to prosecute businesses, but they are following up on complaints of improper practices.
Hobby Lobby has not yet responded to our request for comment.
50% of FR agrees with this. Sad to see Conservatism die!
I hope Hobby Lobby tells them to go S-it in their HAT!
Where's your polling data for that?
Yeah, right (rolling eyes)
I’m sure the fact that Hobby Lobby is run by Christians is irrelevant to this < /S >
I’ve been keeping a list for the past 2 months. It is amazing the sheer number of doomsayer nuts here on FR.
This from Fresno County:
A California County Sheriff said the police department is not cracking down on residents who break social distancing rules, saying officers are too busy re-arresting those who were released under the state’s zero-dollar bail policy.
The story: Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims made the comments in an interview with Trevor Carey on the “Trevor Carey Show.”
“I’ve heard multiple sheriffs around the nation state they will not enforce their governors’ shelter-in-place orders. Is that your position?” Carey asked.
“That is my position. We do not stop the public to find out what they’re doing when they’re not sheltering in place. We don’t ask those questions, we don’t ask if they’re ‘essential’. We’ve got our hands full trying to re-arrest people that are released due to zero-dollar bail. So we’ve got other things that are on our mind that are more important than stopping normally law-abiding citizens,” Mims explained.
Civil Disobedience is your Friend.
Snitches.
Why do you say this? Do you have some data?
Is this the worst written article today? Or this year.
What was the accusation? And who is Angela?
"Unless customers were buying masks or fabric for PPE then they'd have to leave their purchases," Angela Aguilar said referring to items that had not yet been purchased. "I was saying I'll buy a piece of fabric if I have to just let me get my items and they said, 'No that's not the point.'"
Maybe I am more dense than usual today.
What exactly is the complaint? What unfair practice are they being accused of?
Maybe my reading comprehension is in the toilet but it sounds like Hobby Lobby was complying with the stupid, unfair, draconian rules. What's to investigate?
I’ve been keeping a list for the past 2 months. It is amazing the sheer number of doomsayer nuts here on FR.
Agree 100%.
I’m surprised the daily “Flubros” thread was allowed to continue. Sickening to see these frightened nitwits being permitted to soil the board.
The thing about a complicated law code, is that in one way or another, almost everybody, at one time or another, does something in violation of some part of that code.
Never mind that there parts of the code that are directly contradictory to what may be read into another part of the code, a vigorous and crafty lawyer can present a case before the court, and by overwhelming urban guerrilla tactics, snow the court and get a ruling that on more sober reflection, may prove to be fully countered by quoting another contrary position in the code. In other words, it becomes a rule of men, not law, which has been reduced to a parody of itself.
Whoever gets there first with the most bluff, wins.
Facts please.
Any time (every time) you see a badly written article; you can be sure it is yet another sterling example of local TV news journalism.
Are you a journalism dropout from the local junior college? No worries. There’s always a local TV station that is stupid enough to hire losers who can’t communicate.
As long as you look good.
Wow
You can’t go to Hobby Lobby or Joanne’s fabrics to purchase materials to make masks but, you can order approved items online from Bezos Inc...
Heck, I even come across fag lovers on FR who say they’re conservative. It is what it is. But the one thing that pisses me off are these so called conservatives who keep bitching “the end of America” when we have arguably the greatest president in history right now.
Buncha defeatist trolls. If FR was around WW2, these limp-wristed pukes would be crying on why we nuked Japan twice..
Prayers up for this business owner! May God grant David victory over tyrannical Goliath AGAIN!
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