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AP - For a second time this year, a federal judge threw out a class-action lawsuit that blamed McDonald's for making its customers fat.
US District Court Judge Robert Sweet said the plaintiffs failed to show that the fast-food chain misled consumers into believing its food was nutritious and part of a healthy diet.
Sweet tossed out an earlier version of the lawsuit in January that claimed McDonald's food caused health problems in children.
He rejected a request that the plaintiffs be permitted to file a new version, which claimed that McDonald's violated New York's consumer protection laws and engaged in deceptive advertising.
The Manhattan judge said the lawsuit failed to back allegations that any injuries resulted from McDonald's representations about its french fries or hash browns.
In his earlier ruling, Sweet said consumers cannot blame McDonald's if they choose to eat there.
"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.
©AAP 2003
US District Court Judge Robert Sweet said the plaintiffs failed to show that the fast-food chain misled consumers into believing its food was nutritious and part of a healthy diet.
Sweet tossed out an earlier version of the lawsuit in January that claimed McDonald's food caused health problems in children.
He rejected a request that the plaintiffs be permitted to file a new version, which claimed that McDonald's violated New York's consumer protection laws and engaged in deceptive advertising.
The Manhattan judge said the lawsuit failed to back allegations that any injuries resulted from McDonald's representations about its french fries or hash browns.
In his earlier ruling, Sweet said consumers cannot blame McDonald's if they choose to eat there.
"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.
©AAP 2003
about fuckin time cuz I knew mcdonald's didn't do a thing wrong :roll: at whoever came up with that lame idea to do that idea..
hahaha Bush in 2004 hahaha