That was years and years ago, and it was not a lawsuit claiming that eating fast food made them fat.

 

true...but that one was still pretty stupid too.

 

it's just an example that frivolous lawsuits can be won.. so better to stop them before they even have a chance.

 

The point is the House specifically banned lawsuits in which plaintiffs make claims that fast food restaurants make them fat. One lawsuit about a lady burning herself with McDonald's coffee doesn't mean it's any more likely that people who say McDonald's makes them fat will succeed.

 

thank god. i'm suprised they did something like that. but i agree, its a waste of money and people really need to stop blaming everyone else for their problems.

 

only because that was the bandwagon getrichquickatsomeoneelse'sexpensebecauseican'tput downagoddamedcheeseburgerandamatotalretard lawsuit for this year. of course something equally as absurd will pop up and with this precedent it will be more difficult to make it stick.

 

After that lawsuit, did a bunch of other people spill coffee on themselves and then sue fast food restaurants? No, because they all put warning labels on their coffee which prevented anyone else from exploiting a similar opportunity.

The main legal difference between someone spilling coffee on themselves and someone eating a burger is that spilling coffee is not necessarily something a person chooses to do. Sure the lady spilled her own coffee, but it's not something she did intentionally. There's no way to unintentionally eat a burger.

There's a total of one case on the books where someone sued McDonald's for making them fat. It was thrown out of court, because it was an absurd claim. One case.

What it basically comes down to is that we all know these lawsuits are frivolous and thus far the courts have proved themselves more than capable of throwing the banned case(s) out, no help from Congress needed.

 

of course we all know that these lawsuits are frivolous. that does not however stop people from filing them, and some winning. that's the point here. enough of the bullshit, use some common sense. even if a case doesn't win, don't you think it costs a lot of money to get to that point of proving that it's crap and tossing it out? it's about damn time that something is done. i'm tired of seeing this kind of shit go to court, and i hope this ruling has indeed set a precedent as blackmagik suggested.

 

I shall repeat: a total of one case in which the plaintiff claims fast food made them obese has ever been filed in this country. It was thrown out of court. It did not go to trial, the defendant did not have to waste any time and/or money proving the case was frivolous.

I don't think a total of one case, which by the way was thrown out of court and didn't make it to trial, is grounds for passing legislation to ban any future cases on the matter.

Congress shouldn't be in the business of saying what the courts are and are not allowed to bring to trial. That's up to the courts.

 

good point.....