Conservative Donnybrook

For those of you who I went to law school with, imagine Professor Murphy with the following statute:

Section 1.
. . . .
(2) Any food establishment to which this section applies shall not be allowed to serve food to any person who is obese, based on criteria which is prescribed by the State Department of Health after consultation with the Mississippi Council on Obesity Prevention established under Section 41-101-1 or its successor. . . .

For those who have not been subjected to the special form of torture called law school, a law professor’s job is to locate the greyness in a law and exploit that for all its worth to make you look stupid in front of your peers. Professor Murphy is the best at this practice. (Of course she does it out of love for her students).

This is an actual bill before the Mississippi legislature. Where exactly is the borderline between obese and not obese? Would you be required to submit to a weigh in before being served?

For those of you who went to other schools, you probably have your own version of Professor Murphy…imagine that professor with this statute on her mind and you in her crosshairs. It would be a bloodbath.

h/t Concurring Opinions

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