Fat suit dismissed

From Jurist:

McDonald's obesity dismissal
US District Judge Robert Sweet's Wednesday dismissal of a precedent-setting obesity lawsuit against McDonald's Corporation is now online [PDF] from the Southern District of New York. The suit was brought on behalf of overweight children in the Bronx and claimed that McDonald's products posed a danger to consumers of which they were unaware.

I'm glad to see that the Judge in this case had the common sense to dismiss this suit before it could waste more of the courts time or bring more attention to the attorney who filed it.  Somehow I doubt this will do much to convince the parents of the kids that the suit was brought "on behalf of" that maybe they need to accept responsiblity for their children's welfare, but maybe it'll at least shake a clue into the heads of a few of them.

More, from AP:

Federal judge throws out lawsuit against McDonald's

The Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) -- Saying the law is not intended to protect people from their own excesses, a federal judge threw out a class-action lawsuit Wednesday that blamed McDonald's food for obesity, diabetes and other health problems in children.

U.S. District Judge Robert Sweet said the plaintiffs failed to show that the fast-food chain's products "involve a danger that is not within the common knowledge of consumers."

"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," the judge said. "Nobody is forced to eat at McDonald's."