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First, They Came For The Dodgeballs

Desperately mining the pits of legal theory in search of support for his next lawsuit, George Washington University law professor John Banzhaf recently produced another gem. Last…
Posted January 19, 2006 at12:00 am

Food Police’s Lawsuit Insults Personal Responsibility, Science

Today the better-living-through-litigation squad at the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) held a press conference to announce an audacious new lawsuit against two companies involved with…
Posted January 18, 2006 at12:00 am

Keep Christmas Lawsuit-Free With Our Milk And Cookies Waiver

When Santa comes down the chimney, he can’t help but drink the milk and eat the cookies kids leave out for him. Sadly, in this litigious age, he may leave…
Posted December 22, 2005 at12:00 am

ABC’s Stossel: Trial Lawyers Need To Give Us A Break!

Nineteen-time Emmy-winning news correspondent John Stossel recently penned a column to remind us that we, and we alone, are responsible for the food we eat. Especially…
Posted December 1, 2005 at12:00 am

Don’t Sue The Hand That Feeds You

Click here to download our “Thanksgiving Guest Liability and Indemnification Agreement” This Thanksgiving, as you and yours gather around the table to give thanks,…
Posted November 17, 2005 at12:00 am

Trick Or Tort

Trick or Tort? If you’re not careful, that might be the question you hear tonight as a band of marauding trial lawyers troll the streets for their next frivolous…
Posted October 31, 2005 at12:00 am

‘Cheeseburger Bill’ In Paradise; Out Of House, Heads To Senate

Just about the only people in Washington, DC yesterday to oppose common sense protection against frivolous lawsuits were the Center for Science in the Public Interest and the…
Posted October 20, 2005 at12:00 am

Obesity Lawsuit Jamboree

Another year, another Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI) conference plotting obesity lawsuits. After last year’s conference we wrote, “It wouldn’t have been a conference on obesity…
Posted September 26, 2005 at12:00 am

Glitzy Awards, Tarnished Halos

Monday’s Chattanooga Times Free Press couldn’t have put it any better when it highlighted our 4th Annual Tarnished Halo Awards: “So long as fussy and even militant meddlers try…
Posted March 15, 2005 at12:00 am

The Sharks Are Circling

Last month a federal appeals court reinstated a lawsuit against McDonald’s for supposedly making people fat. These days a coven of trial lawyers is plotting to sue the food…
Posted February 22, 2005 at12:00 am