Also, requiring food providers to list nutritional information isn't asking someone to run your life for you - it's providing people with the tools needed to make informed decisions; it is on their own head whether or not they make use of those tools.
I agree with you totally on that sir... packaged food in stores has all that information on it, and it makes life easier to live healthy, but what they have done is decided that sugary drinks (sodas, iced teas and what not) are at fault for making people fat, so they make them illegal. What they are doing is taking away with that is taking away personal responsibility, its not the overweight persons fault for eating to much, it is the sodas fault.
That sort of thinking has been going on for far to long in our country, note all the retarded lawsuits people have won such as suing a fast food joint because they burnt themselves on hot coffee, "oh i didn't know it was hot because the cup didn't say it was hot." Apparently the bulk of people don't know how to be responsible for themselves and these laws and politicians that produce these laws are just enablers.
It hurts my soul knowing that freedom of choice that America's forefathers fought for is being restricted because some people are cant take care of themselves, and law makers are more than happy to jump in a restrict everyone's freedom for the "good" of some people who can't/won't take responsibility for themselves.
As for stop and frisk, well, someone's gonna have to appeal that higher. That sort of argument has a pretty heavy precedent of failing, as I recall, so it's really just a case of one judge screwing up/imposing his beliefs and biases upon the system. That's why there are things like en banc reviews.
the sad thing is this kind of thing has been on their books for nearly 2 decades now, and while there are plenty of lawyers who fight individual cases of it, not very many people seem interested in getting rid of the policy overall because it mainly targets "bad" neighborhoods and "bad" (read youths and minorities) people. Its a slippery slope these fellows are playing on. I may seem like I make more out of it that it should be but once you start giving a little bit, they will start taking as much as they want... all you have to do to see that is look at history..