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There is sanity!!!
Posted: 2003-01-22 05:05pm
by Alex Moon
http://www.msnbc.com/news/862802.asp?0cv=CB10
Judges dismisses McDonalds lawsuit
“If a person knows or should know that eating copious orders of supersized McDonald’s products is unhealthy and may result in weight gain ... it is not the place of the law to protect them from their own excesses,” the judge said. “Nobody is forced to eat at McDonald’s.”
Posted: 2003-01-22 05:07pm
by Lord_Xerxes
Holla. Someone buy that judge a big mac and a triple thick shake.
Posted: 2003-01-22 05:08pm
by Keevan_Colton
*ticks this off on his "Signs of the Impending Apocalypse" checklist*
One step closer...
Posted: 2003-01-22 05:09pm
by HemlockGrey
There is justice!
Posted: 2003-01-22 05:16pm
by Mr Bean
No the justice comes when the Lawyers who agreed to take their case gets hit by a bus on his way out....
Posted: 2003-01-22 05:20pm
by Sea Skimmer
Mr Bean wrote:No the justice comes when the Lawyers who agreed to take their case gets hit by a bus on his way out....
That has a McDonald's add painted on the side...
Posted: 2003-01-22 05:22pm
by Lord_Xerxes
While eating a big mac...
Posted: 2003-01-22 05:36pm
by Next of Kin
what will those families do now? go on an eating binge at mcdonalds?
Posted: 2003-01-22 05:39pm
by Keevan_Colton
Lord_Xerxes wrote:While eating a big mac...
The other lawyers at his firm would sue McD's again for creatin distracting wrappers or something....
Posted: 2003-01-22 05:42pm
by Lord_Xerxes
Next of Kin wrote:what will those families do now? go on an eating binge at mcdonalds?
Probably. If Mickey D's is anything like Wawa (where I work) whenver someone calls up the Corporate Headquaters to complain about something, they send them out vouchers for free products (without even bothering to see if it's an accurate story, etc)
Posted: 2003-01-22 05:58pm
by Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi
Finally, justice is served. Would anybody like fries with that?
Now, all we need to do is hope other judges strike down such absurd lawsuits.
Posted: 2003-01-22 07:02pm
by The Dark
About time we got a judge with some sense in a high-profile lawsuit.
Posted: 2003-01-22 07:52pm
by Soontir C'boath
Judge Robert Sweet w00t w00t.
Stupid idiots....
Cyaround,
Jason
Posted: 2003-01-22 08:03pm
by Andrew J.
Those people should be penalized for a frivolous lawsuit. Hooray for the judge!
Posted: 2003-01-23 09:46am
by Xenophobe3691
Holy crap, we've got a REAL judge out here, and a jury that isn't a bunch of idiots! Maybe Americans are waking up...
Posted: 2003-01-23 09:58am
by Kuja
Vorlon1701 wrote:Holy crap, we've got a REAL judge out here, and a jury that isn't a bunch of idiots! Maybe Americans are waking up...
We can only hope....
Posted: 2003-01-23 10:41am
by haas mark
[quietly stuffs the sanity back in its jar...]
Re: There is sanity!!!
Posted: 2003-01-23 12:53pm
by neoolong
Alex Moon wrote:http://www.msnbc.com/news/862802.asp?0cv=CB10
Judges dismisses McDonalds lawsuit
“If a person knows or should know that eating copious orders of supersized McDonald’s products is unhealthy and may result in weight gain ... it is not the place of the law to protect them from their own excesses,” the judge said. “Nobody is forced to eat at McDonald’s.”
It would have been cooler if he had said: "it is not the place of the law to protect them from their own stupdity."
Posted: 2003-01-23 01:05pm
by RedImperator
Don't celebrate yet. There are still appeals.
Posted: 2003-01-23 01:26pm
by Stormbringer
RedImperator wrote:Don't celebrate yet. There are still appeals.
It's still entirely possible. But even if it's been tossed out now it's a good thing.
Posted: 2003-01-23 01:30pm
by The Yosemite Bear
verilon wrote:[quietly stuffs the sanity back in its jar...]
No the star arenot right yet.
Gee, sanity, I though I had destroyed all of it from this reality...
Posted: 2003-01-23 04:46pm
by Joe
My legal studies some of the publically-released legal documents related to this case a few months ago. It was by the lawyer filing the suit for the fat fucks, and it was some of the most shoddily put together and poorly arranged legal documentation I've ever seen.