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Judge Throws Out Obesity Suit Against McDonalds
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge on Thursday threw out a refiled lawsuit against McDonald's Corp . blaming the fast food restaurant chain for obesity and health problems in children.


U.S. District Judge Robert Sweet dismissed the suit that accused McDonald's of misleading the plaintiffs through advertising and other publicity that its food products were nutritious. Sweet had thrown out an earlier version of the suit, but had allowed the plaintiffs to refile the case with new information.


However the judge held that nowhere in the new complaint had the plaintiffs said they had seen any of the advertising cited in the suit.


He also said the plaintiffs failed to show an adequate connection between their consumption of McDonald's food and their alleged injuries.
 

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Sorry Frank
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But, Maybe White Castle has a crappier legal team??
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Judge tosses fat lawsuit against McDonald's
NEW YORK (AP) — For a second time this year, a federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit that alleged McDonald's misled consumers into believing its food was nutritious and part of a healthy diet.
U.S. District Court Judge Robert Sweet said Thursday the plaintiffs failed to adequately support allegations that McDonald's violated New York's consumer protection laws and made no allegations that they witnessed any deceptive advertising on the part of the fast food chain.

The Manhattan judge noted in particular that the lawsuit, brought on behalf of two New York children, failed to back allegations that any injuries suffered resulted from McDonald's representations about its French fries or hash browns.

In January, Sweet tossed out an earlier version of the lawsuit that claimed McDonald's food caused health problems in children.

In that ruling, he said, consumers "cannot blame McDonald's if they, nonetheless, choose to satiate their appetite with a surfeit of supersized McDonald's products."

"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," Sweet wrote at the time.

On Thursday, Sweet rejected a request that the plaintiffs be permitted to file a new version of the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
 

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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by lander:
Sorry Frank
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But, Maybe White Castle has a crappier legal team??
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lander, you got it all wrong...Frank is a Burger king man
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