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| 1) | 8/16/07 | Available On Wheat, White, Good, Or Evil The 9/11 Commission Report claimed that the government's greatest weakness was a "failure to imagine. " It goes on to define the food industry as a "necessary evil" in many parts of modern society. Trial lawyer Richard Daynard -- a board ... |
| 2) | 12/18/06 | Make Sure Santa Gives Gifts, Not Lawsuits Click here to download our "Christmas Cookie Liability and Indemnification Agreement."Failure to provide nutritional information and a list of ingredients (the "Grandma's secret recipe" clause);Failure to caution of the potential for overeating because cookies taste "yummy" and are provided at no cost;Failure to ... |
| 3) | 11/7/06 | Quote of the Week -- Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI) President Richard Daynard, who's apparently unfamiliar with economies of scale, is more than willing to have the government regulate restaurant portion size and food pricing. Daynard was speaking at PHAI's annual conference on November 5, |
| 4) | 11/6/06 | Obesity Lawsuit Conference IV: This Time, It's Personal On the subject of trans fat bans (as recently proposed in New York City and New Jersey), food cop extraordinaire Michael Jacobson of the Center for Science in the Public Interest shared his personal... |
| 5) | 3/16/06 | Food Cop Law And Order In the social justice system, two separate yet equally obnoxious groups claim to represent the people: the food police, who push overblown hype and junk science; and greedy trial lawyers, who file frivolous lawsuits. ” The food cops at the Center for Science in the Public Interest and the |
| 6) | 1/12/06 | The Envelope, Please... "Detroit's Poor Should Pay More" Award Given to Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick for proposing a new tax on fast food. "Lawyers Gorging on Pop Torts" Award Given to the Public Health Advocacy Institute's Richard Daynard for his defense of ... |
| 7) | 10/31/05 | Trick Or Tort For more than a year, The Boston Globe reports, lawyers from the Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI) and the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) have been plotting a witchs' brew of lawsuits. Signers agree ... |
| 8) | 9/26/05 | Obesity Lawsuit Jamboree Another year, another Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI) conference plotting obesity lawsuits. Marion Nestle, the keynote speaker at PHAI's first conference, was also nowhere to be found. ... |
| 9) | 6/30/05 | Fun, Fireworks, And Food Cops? Don't let the tyrants rule your food choices -- this Fourth of July, remember your food freedoms, and sign our Declaration of Food Independence. But now Boston is the home of Harvard's anti-soda Redcoats and the Public Health Advocacy Institute, which has hosted conferences " |
| 10) | 5/24/05 | Pop Goes The Junk Science Despite this and a number of other studies (click here, here, and here) showing no link between soda and childhood obesity, groups like the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI)... |
| 11) | 1/26/05 | Legal Shark Alert: They're Back! pid=10000103&sid=aChqfmPqSUJc&refer=us target=_blank>reinstate a frivolous obesity lawsuit brought by trial lawyer Samuel Hirsch (now representing kids after he dropped his first client, obese janitor Caesar Barber). The Public Health Advocacy Institute's ... |
| 12) | 1/7/05 | Big Ol' Banzhaf Just days after speaking at the second annual Public Health Advocacy Institute confab pushing obesity lawsuits against food makers, George Washington University law professor John "Sue the Bastards" Banzhaf popped up on C-SPAN to push these frivolous suits. A supposed expert in obesity lawsuits, Banzhaf claimed that a legal threat from anti-trans-fat activist |
| 13) | 12/2/04 | Caution: Food Police Employ Precautionary Principle a> As Wellesley professor Robert Paarlberg has noted in The Wall Street Journal, the precautionary principle insists that: ... Even Kelly "Big Brother" Brownell admits "there is ... |
| 14) | 10/1/04 | Trial Lawyers Picked The Wrong (Food) Fight That's pretty much what we saw last month at the Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI) conference, where trial lawyers and food cops plotted new ways to sue restaurants and food producers over obesity. "A reduction in energy expenditure must be the main determinant of the current epidemic of obesity," |
| 15) | 9/27/04 | Ten Dumbest Food Cop Ideas b> As a grim precursor to a campaign of extermination-through-litigation, the Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI) recently convened its second annual meeting ... |
| 16) | 9/24/04 | Looking For Lawsuits In All The Wrong Places That's according to Obesity Policy Report, discussing last weekend's second annual Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI) conference of food cops and trial lawyers. In an accompanying article, Philip James, |
| 17) | 9/21/04 | Harvard Study: Snack Foods And Soda Not Linked To Obesity But the sue-first-ask-questions-later food cops and trial lawyers apparently didn't bother to consult researchers across town at Harvard, who last week provided the latest evidence that snack foods and soda are actually not a cause of childhood obesity. After studying more than 14,000 American children, a team of six Harvard doctors found that snack ... |
| 18) | 9/17/04 | ActivistCash.com Addition: PHAI's Lawsuit Lounge This weekend trial lawyers and food cops will huddle at the second annual Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI) conference, plotting strategies to sue food companies and increase the cost of your favorite meals. Two-time PHAI speaker John "Sue the Bastards" Banzhaf was spotted at last year's conference scarfing down fudge brownies. a> PHAI ... |
| 19) | 9/1/04 | 'Hordes' Of Trial Sharks Circling Obesity Bandwagon a> Apparently, Jacobson missed the memo from Public Health Advocacy Institute director Richard Daynard, who urged attendees of that group's last litigation-pushing conference to work from a master script. Before |
| 20) | 7/8/04 | Trial Lawyers PHAI-ning Obesity Concern, Again This year's speakers list includes David Ludwig, a professor at Harvard whose high-profile studies attacking fast food and soda regularly |
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