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Is There Chlorine for the Jury Pool?

You have to admire John Banzhaf’s tenacity, if not his opportunistic moral compass. Eager to follow through on his earlier promises that he would eventually find a sympathetic jury…
Posted May 28, 2003 at12:00 am

Trial Lawyers’ Latest Cash Cow? See ‘US News’

If you want to know what will be American trial lawyers' next cash cow, look no further than page five of this week's US News &World Report. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so you should check this one out for yourself. "Lawyers are now suing restaurants because their clients eat too much" the ad reads. "If they win, you will get stuck with the check."
Posted May 21, 2003 at12:00 am

Quotes Of The Week – On Video!

Want to know what the lifestyle police have in mind for you next? They revealed their plans — and their contempt for the food choices of ordinary Americans — at…
Posted May 20, 2003 at12:00 am

Quote of the Week

NEWS FLASH: John Banzhaf, a trial lawyer who pimps lawsuits against restaurants for their customers’ polyunsaturated transgressions, is apparently unscrupulous enough to fudge the facts about the lawsuits themselves.
Posted May 14, 2003 at12:00 am

Trial Lawyers Still Looking For A Drive-Thru Payday

” … all these platitudes about, ‘people should eat less,’ ‘responsibility,’ all this crap!” — John Banzhaf, May 8, 2003 Courtroom shark John Banzhaf…
Posted May 12, 2003 at12:00 am

Fast-Food Lawsuits ‘Subvert The Democratic Process’

Don’t take our word for it. That’s how U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) put it in an April 10 seminar sponsored by the Free Congress Foundation.
Posted April 21, 2003 at12:00 am

Take That, Counselor!

To the hundreds of news articles that have been written about the pending fast-food lawsuit in New York, we add this tidbit. Don Gorske is a 49-year-old Wisconsin man…
Posted March 27, 2003 at12:00 am

Fast Food Lawsuits Break All the Rules

Someone has finally published a competent legal analysis of the recent lawsuits filed against fast-food restaurants, and it’s not a glowing review. On Friday, George Mason University law professor…
Posted March 18, 2003 at12:00 am

Twelve Super-Sized Steps?

“Burgers on the Brain.” That’s the cover of a recent issue of New Scientist. “Fast food ‘as addictive as heroin'” blared one BBC headline. Some research…
Posted March 13, 2003 at12:00 am

The Future Of Food Lawsuits

He has yet to win a single obesity-related lawsuit, but his royal litigiousness John Banzhaf is already planning for the next one — and the one after that. The…
Posted February 25, 2003 at12:00 am