SCOV Law

By Andy Delaney It's a beautiful day today. In fact, the entire weekend has been lovely. So, my excuse for not writing up this past Friday's three opinions that I've been using the last couple days is getting a little hoary (to use a recent word-of-the-day entry). If these summaries are even more abbreviated than usual? Well, blame it on the weather.  Whenever I think of Costco, I think of this scene and this scene from the 2006 classic, Idiocracy . One of the many things you can get at Vermont's Costco is gasoline (I almost wrote "gas" which has some humorous ambiguity, but I—once again—digress) at its proprietary gas station. The gas station has been there a long time with limited hours. It's now open full time.  This opinion basically says "Costco has checked the boxes." Initially, the station was open limited hours to mitigate traffic congestion. After a decade and change of fighting over the permitting, neighbors (nearby gas stations) did ...