FINALLY! A beacon of sense in the courts...

[DAN-MAN]

Originally posted by Mr 5 0
While I applaud the common sense of the court in dismissing the lawsuit for damages against McDonalds I'm not all that confident that we won't see more of these popping up; idiots and their greedy lawyers suing different compnies for selling foods that hasten the addition of extra pounds when eaten to excess, like McDonalds hamburgers and fries.

I can remember when tobacco companies were first sued by people who contracted lung cancer from smoking and the suits were thrown out because the cigarette packs had warning labels on them for decades. No matter. The suits kept coming and finally, a jury voted to award a large cash settlement to a smoker even though he had been warned of the cancer risk in smoking. Turned out that the cigarette companies had hidden the fact that the cigarettes were more addictive than they ever admitted and they did nothing to lower the nicotine content, in fact, they raised it to increase sales. Eventually, the tobacco companies made a group settlement to the ststes of many billions over ten years to end the suits.

While the tobacco companies may have deserved the huge settlement and multi-billion dollar hit to the pocketbook, the fact that people kept suing based on their developing lung cancer from smoking, even after the government made the tobacco companies put cancer warnings on the cigarette packs, does not bode well for sanity here. Tort lawyers are like sharks and probably smell some corporate blood in the water from fast food companies already. I expect more suits like this and eventually some brain-dead jury will award some fat idiot a huge cash judgement based on the fast food companies not telling him that hamburgers, fries and milk shakes as a steady diet might make you fat and unheathy. Wait for it.

Very well spoken Mr. 50. And everything you said is true. Lawyers that see a potential to make a huge sum of money will tell a person anything and the idiot will believe it. That's like when the gun companies were sued because cities claimed that handguns were an unsafe product. They were hoping to get a huge cash settlement.

We need more people like Judge Sweet in office. Maybe then the judicial system will turn around.

Daniel.