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Happy Bloomsday! Stanford University professor Carol Shloss marked the 102nd anniversary last week of the epic trek through Dublin by Stephen Bloom, hero of James Joyce's Ulysses, by filing a lawsuit. She accuses Joyce's estate and its agent, his grandson Stephen Joyce, of intimidating her and unfairly preventing her from quoting Joyce's writings and family records for her 2003 book about Joyce's daughter Lucia...
...food really that unhealthy? The company says its products "meet or exceed all government regulations." But as the Center for Science in the Public Interest, the activist group behind the lawsuit, points out, a three-piece extra-crispy combo meal contains as much as 15 g of trans fat--more than a person should ingest in a week...
Even so, food companies may be vulnerable to lawsuits that allege they have engaged in misleading advertising--whether by misstating calorie information or failing to disclose health risks when describing a food as nutritious. Plaintiffs' lawyers argue that consumers who rely on inaccurate information can't make informed decisions about what to eat. Robert's American Gourmet just settled a class action claiming that the firm misstated the calorie and fat content of the popular Pirate's Booty snack and reportedly paid out more than $3 million. The company had no comment on the suit. McDonald's paid $12.5 million...
...district spending its money hiring more lawyers to fight a legal battle." Adam Drewnowski, director of the Center for Public Health Nutrition at the University of Washington, says, "If you want to influence the school board, you run for a seat on the board. Threatening a lawsuit is almost like blackmail. It's just unconscionable...
...others, the lawsuits seem a necessary evil. Jacqueline Domac, a nutrition teacher at California's Venice High School and an organizer of the Los Angeles coalition, says, "Just because we were able to get this done on a local level doesn't mean it will work everywhere. For some districts, it may take the threat of a lawsuit." Susan Roberts, a lawyer and consultant at the Agricultural Law Center at Drake University, agrees. "I've been involved in health policy for over 20 years," she says. "We haven't had a very large impact. Sometimes it takes litigation...