Don’t look now, but that possibility may be closer than you think:
Despite all the trans fat scaremongering ““ aided in part by food companies caving in to trans fat-free alarmism by reformulating cooking processes or selling trans fat-free products ““ the Food and Drug Administration still classifies all uses of trans fats as “generally recognized as safe.”This classification obviously serves as a roadblock to successful personal injury litigation. How long trans fats will maintain their “GRAS” status is anyone’s guess.
However, the Democrat takeover of Congress raises concerns because trial lawyers are historically among the Democrats’ biggest financial supporters ““ almost 10 times greater than the food industry in 2006 ($65 million vs. $7 million). While Congress has no direct authority over the FDA and its staff, Congress may pressure the FDA and its leadership to change the GRAS status of trans fats in other ways — such as through its investigative, appropriations and legislative powers.
A change in the status of trans fats would clear the way for personal injury lawyers to sue (perhaps on a class action basis) and start collecting big bucks for the alleged 1-in-5 heart attacks that the Harvard cabal blames on trans fats. It could be a multi-billion dollar payday that ranks among the most lucrative personal injury litigation for the lawyers.
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For all those Dem lawyers: who’s responsible for putting the trans fats in people’s mouths?
Oh, I forgot, the days of personal responsibility died long ago.
What is also missing is that any all of these cases will be supported by clinicians and scientists that will happily whore themselves out to the ATLA. It is time for the clinical and scientific community to say enough is enough and that any member supporting these nonsensical claims will be thoroughly ostracized.
Hell, the sodomite pieces of shit are suing Borat; they’ll sue anybody with deep pockets:
The Associated Press
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Two unsuspecting fraternity boys want to make lawsuit against “Borat” over their drunken appearance in the hit movie.
The legal action filed Thursday on their behalf claims they were duped into appearing in the spoof documentary “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan,” in which they made racist and sexist comments on camera.
The young men “engaged in behavior that they otherwise would not have engaged in,” the lawsuit says.
“Borat” follows the adventures of comedian Sacha Baron Cohen’s Kazakh journalist character in a blend of fiction and improvised comic encounters as he travels across the United States and mocks Americans.
The plaintiffs were not named in the lawsuit “to protect themselves from any additional and unnecessary embarrassment.” They were identified in the movie as fraternity members from a South Carolina university, and appeared drunk as they made insulting comments about women and minorities to Cohen’s character.
The lawsuit claims that in October 2005, a production crew took the students to a bar to drink and “loosen up” before participating in what they were told would be a documentary to be shown outside of the United States.
“They were induced to agree to participate and were told the name of the fraternity and the name of their school wouldn’t be used,” said the plaintiffs’ attorney, Olivier Taillieu. “They were put into an RV and were made to believe they were picking up Borat the hitchhiker.”
After a bout of heavy drinking, the plaintiffs signed a release form they were told “had something to do with reliability issues with being in the RV,” Taillieu said.
The film “made plaintiffs the object of ridicule, humiliation, mental anguish and emotional and physical distress, loss of reputation, goodwill and standing in the community,” the lawsuit said.
It names 20th Century Fox, a unit of News Corp., and three production companies as defendants.
Studio spokesman Gregg Brilliant said the lawsuit “has no merit.”
“…plaintiffs named as John Doe 1 and John Doe 2, both from South Carolina, agreed to appear in the film after producers promised it would never be shown in the United States.”
So they provided them alcohol to get them drunk and then lied to them about what they were signing and you think the contract will hold up in court? What if a doctor got his patient drunk then told him there was no risk to a certain surgery and then had him sign a consent form? It doesn’t matter what is buried in a contract, if you verbally mislead the person signing it, it will not hold up in court. They were also told the name of the fraternity would not appear in the movie, another lie which further tips the balance in their favor.
“So they provided them alcohol to get them drunk and then lied to them about what they were signing and you think the contract will hold up in court?”
That’s what the Plaintiff’s sodomite is claiming; it doesn’t mean it’s the truth. Would any of this happened if “Borat” wasn’t the #1 money-making movie in the country? Did these college students get forced to Booze it up at gunpoint? Is it Borat’s fault the booze brought out their inner racism? Borat’s from Kazakhstan anyway, where they don’t put up with shit like this. Wonder if he’ll show up at this molestation in character?
Look I’m all for personal responsibility and tort reform, but you can’t let your dislike of the plaintiffs influence the matter at hand. What if this were your daughter? What if someone from girls gone wild provided your daughter with alcohol and had her sign a release under the influence and promised her that it would never air in the US? I hope your response would not be the same. Sure these kids may actually believe the things they said, but that still doesn’t make the pretenses of this situation any less fraudulent.
My daughter getting drunk and showing up naked on “girls gone wild” is a little different then a bunch of drunk co-eds spitting out there inner racism after having a few too many beers to a silly British comedian dressed as a Kazakh. The truth is that these days any person or corporation in this country that is making money is repeatedly sued by Desperate sodomizing lawyers who are fighting for dollars. Wait till you own alot of stock in a company that does nothing wrong but gets driven down in price when Milberg Weiss Lerach decides to sue them for some stupid frivilous class action. I do have an interest in this problem: I’m leaving the US to practice medicine in Canada next year solely because I am fed up with the constant threat of lawsuits.
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