"You'd better show me some respect, buster.
I had to kiss a lot of ass to get this job!"
This is not a Judge’s decision!
Lose all products. Bring in a hot plate, a box of Lipton tea bags and styrofoam vending machine cups. One employee to dispense the lukewarm water, to provide the tea bag and to collect the $9.50 per cup fee.
Communist judge?
That is lawless and out of line. I hope Starbucks will comply with the letter of that black-robed thug’s ruling but not the spirit. Perhaps “reduce hours” - have one staff member go from store to store, opening each for one hour per week. How would the totalitarian class respond to that? Or do thugs get to demand specific store hours too?
If Starbucks has a contract to keep the stores open he can. I suspect that the truth is different from the hyperbolic rant couched as news.
WTF, indeed. Where in contract law does it say that one party must consider the impact on the other party? Is there an explicit clause in Starbuck’s contract with Simon Properties that prevents it from shuttering stores?
This judge should be tied down and given a Teavana enema.
This is a dangerous precedent with totalitarian lefist overtones, but I’m having a tough time being upset over it happening to Starbucks, they helped make this bed. Now they can lie in it.
I hate Starbucks! Bad coffee, worse politics!
HST, though, Starbucks should close the stores and dare the judge to come after them!
Since it is Starbiucks, I could care less.
Late to this party.
But I suspect the ruling was not quite what the article said it was. If there were leases, and Starbucks was looking to violate the lease, maybe.
If I am wrong, then the facade of private ownership is gone. If I was Starbucks I would just lay everyone off and refuse to staff them.
Quite funny, the leftist use the courts all the time to acheive their goals...
Nice to see them getting bite back
I don’t like Starschmucks, but this should be appealed and the judge should be removed from office.
I hate to seem sexist, but in all my years, I have never read or witnessed a female judge who stuck with the law and the Constitution, with rare exception when doing so agreed with their feelings. Their "Opinions" meant exact that... and nothing more.
Close the stores anyway. Let the dingbat judge enforce her ruling. Otherwise the taxpayers will be paying Starbucks for every minute these places stay open beyond what they intended.
We are NOT a free country anymore.
Ayn Rand was a prophet!.....................