New York’s Big Soda Ban Challenged in Court by Industry Groups
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The American Beverage Association, calling New York City’s ban on the sale of large sugary drinks an “unprecedented interference” with consumer choice, sued to block enforcement of the measure.
The decision by the city’s Board of Health to approve the ban was overreaching and ignored the rights of New Yorkers to make their own choices, the association and other groups said in a petition filed yesterday in state supreme court in Manhattan.