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 REPPED: The Cornucopia Institute has announced a wave of class action lawsuits against the Boulder, Colorado-based Aurora Organic Dairy Corporation, which it says is engaged in, "the largest scandal in the history of the organic industry." The lawsuits allege that Aurora Organic Dairy Corporation, which supplies organic milk to Wal-Mart, Wild Oats, Target, Costco, Safeway, and other retailers, is engaged in "consumer fraud, negligence, and unjust enrichment" by failing to adhere to USDA organic standards even while selling its milk under the organic label. |
| The lawsuits are the latest round in a battle of wills between Aurora Dairy, the Cornucopia Institute (www.Cornucopia.org) and the Organic Consumers Association (www.OrganicConsumers.org). In the last few weeks, Aurora Dairy threatened to sue the Cornucopia Institute and Organic Consumers Association for their continued publicizing of Aurora's reported failures to meet organic standards. |
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 Today, I am announcing that I will assist individuals who were harmed by Vioxx in filing lawsuits against Merck for the damage caused by their products. I'll do this by getting you in touch with capable legal teams who are involved in ongoing legal action against the pharmaceutical giant. So if you've taken Vioxx and want to join what could become a multi-billion-dollar settlement against Merck, contact us at feedback48@newstarget.com and include your name and address. We'll forward your information to a legal team who will take it from there. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 The researchers wanted to see whether a tendency to file lawsuits played a role in FM, since they were concerned that the prospect of large financial rewards might coax patients into claiming severe, widespread pain where lesser pain existed. lawsuits are rare in the Amish community, making it a good control group for such a study. But the answer proved to be a huge surprise: Rates of FM in Amish women and men were nearly double what they had been in the city. And when FM accompanied a rheumatological disease like SLE, rates more than doubled again. Why would this happen? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Class action lawsuits: the downfall of Big Pharma?
The last similarity between these two companies is the class action lawsuits. Of course, Big Tobacco has fended off a lot of lawsuits. There was a Big Tobacco settlement a few years ago where the states got involved, and I think there is just such a lawsuit coming against the pharmaceutical companies.
I think the pharmaceutical companies have dug their own grave. They have over-hyped, over-promoted, over-prescribed, over-pushed, and over-advertised all these prescription drugs. |
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 Because Big Pharma co-conspirators have realized that lawsuits threaten to bankrupt the drug companies. The products of these companies are so universally harmful, and their ability to hide this truth is slipping away so rapidly, that the financial burden of settling lawsuits (or defending them in court) threatens to crush the entire pharmaceutical empire.
Merck alone is defending itself against literally thousands of lawsuits from just one drug: Vioxx. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It goes back to the classic Sony VHS recorder lawsuits decades ago. In fact, if Sony had won those lawsuits, then all VHS recorders would have been outlawed and people recording TV shows on VHS tapes would have been charged with piracy.
In my opinion you are doing nothing wrong if you own a movie on DVD and rip it to other player formats such as PlayStation portable, iPod video, cell phone video, or any other video format. Of course, if you go out and rent movies, and then rip them, then you are in fact doing something wrong, because you don't own that movie, you're just renting it. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If it wasn't for lawsuits from groups like these, the FDA would have done virtually nothing over the last ten years to protect the public from dangerous drugs. The FDA only takes action after being hammered by lawsuits, Senators or Congressional testimony from its own drug safety scientists (whom the FDA tries to silence before they can speak out, by the way).
Giving the public access to an online database where people can review the results of clinical trials on their own would take the corrupt FDA out of the loop. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Big Pharma will not have immunity to lawsuits brought by consumers harmed by dangerous prescription drugs. As you may know, drug companies (and even the White House and FDA) have lobbied for granting drug companies blanket immunity from all injury lawsuits. This would have been the ultimate insult to American consumers, but a huge victory for drug companies (whose products arguably are the most dangerous products currently being consumed by Americans, with the exception of tobacco products). |
Ann N. Martin
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 In their lawsuits, Nutro and Kal Kan, allege that this causes the dogs to lose weight in dangerous amounts. The suit claims that dogs fed according to lams' instructions won't receive sufficient nutrition. "lams executives deny that the feeding instrucrions are inappropriate and say the allegations in the lawsuits are without merit," reported Greg Johnson in an October 2001 article in the Los Angeles Times. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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| The researchers wanted to see whether a tendency to file lawsuits played a role in FM, since they were concerned that the prospect of large financial rewards might coax patients into claiming severe, widespread pain where lesser pain existed. lawsuits are rare in the Amish community, making it a good control group for such a study. But the answer proved to be a huge surprise: Rates of FM in Amish women and men were nearly double what they had been in the city. And when FM accompanied a rheumatological disease like SLE, rates more than doubled again. Why would this happen? |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| They call the many lawsuits in which they are embroiled "frivolous" and are attempting to control the course to be taken by class-action attorneys. They are using the profits of their unconscionable greed to buy influence, power, and ultimately, absolution from legal proceedings.
In the early 1900s, regulatory agencies were created by government to stem the predatory nature of corporations. This relationship has eroded over time, and what now exists is a malevolent liaison between corporate America and regulatory agencies that excludes the rights of citizens. (See Chapter 6, Government. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 Pharmaceutical executives do the math on the risk/benefit analysis of potential lawsuits from keeping a harmful drug on the market versus the revenue loss of a recall. Obviously, this plays into the decision to pull a product, as well as the timing of the decision. If there is a problem with a drug, the FDA can issue a letter of recommendation to the company to act on the matter. If the company does not respond, the agency can seek legal action including seizure of available product, an injunction or a request for recall of the product. |
| Through years of dealing with member complaints, government agencies and lawsuits, clubs have learned to include every possible scenario that would put the business at risk. The extensive amount of information required to achieve this objective is type set with the smallest print size allowed by law.
Asking the salesperson to explain details about the contract will not likely yield an acceptable response since most of them have not read it themselves. Getting salespeople to read the entire contract has always proven to be a training challenge. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Fortunately for women, the massive increase in lawsuits as a result of missed tumors is contributing to an increasing reluctance among doctors and clinics that once offered mammography to continue doing so.
A 1997 report by the American National Cancer Institute stated that mammograms showed no mortality benefit unless women in their 40s had been followed for 10 years. Other studies have shown that women who have mammograms suffer about the same rates of death due to breast cancer as women who do not have mammograms. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The RIAA also said it would begin sending letters to tens of millions of consumers thought to be illegally remembering songs, threatening them with lawsuits if they don't settle with the RIAA by paying monetary damages. "We will aggressively pursue all copyright infringement in order to protect our industry," said Sherman.
In order to avoid engaging in unauthorized copyright infringement, consumers will now be required to immediately forget everything they've just heard -- a skill already mastered by U.S. President George Bush. |
Andreas Moritz
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| It is very obvious that they want to avoid hefty lawsuits, and bad-mouthing of the meat industry. They insist that dangerous bacterial outbreaks occur because the consumer does not cook the family's meat long enough. It is now considered a crime to serve a rare hamburger. Even if you have not committed this "crime," any infection will be attributed to not washing your hands every time you touch a raw chicken or to letting the chicken touch your kitchen counter or any other food. |
| On April 6th, 2004 lawsuits were filed in three separate California courts against twelve companies that either produce or use the artificial sweetener aspartame as a sugar substitute in their products. The suits were filed in Shasta, Sonoma and Butte Counties in California. The suits allege that the food companies committed fraud and breach of warranty by marketing products to the public such as Diet Coke, Diet Pepsi, sugar-free gum, Flintstone's vitamins, yogurt and children's aspirin with the full knowledge that aspartame, the sweetener in them, is neurotoxic. |
| Although such lawsuits can last many years, they bring an increased awareness about the fraudulent practices of the pharma-medical and food industries to the unsuspecting population.
Aspartame is a drug masquerading as an additive. It interacts with other drugs, has a synergistic and additive effect with MSG, and is a chemical hyper-sensitization agent. As far back as 1970, studies on aspartic acid, which makes up 40 percent of aspartame, showed that it caused lesions in the brains of mice. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| At the time, true science did not prevail; overriding monetary considerations (fear of lawsuits), egos, and status were the driving forces that hid the truth from the public.
What followed was horrendous. The deaths and disabilities that resulted from a tainted blood supply resulted from new science and super egos. A conscientious researcher with an unbiased hypothesis eventually revealed the truth, albeit too late for many victims.
In terms of diabetes, I would ask the reader to formulate a hypothesis based on available numbers, and then delve a bit deeper into the motives of the suspects. |
Devra Davis
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 Just how much pressure only surfaced fifty years later when lawsuits found written requests for revisions in various copmany files. At one point Knox tried to persuade Doll to withdraw the paper completely. The editor of the British Journal of Industrial Medicine was visited by a director of the company and pointedly asked not to publish the report.12
Doll's article on the hazards of asbestos for Turner & Newell workers was ultimately published in that journal. But the publication differed in one critical way from the draft. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 Litigants were winning lawsuits against physicians for surgical procedures that were deemed by a jury to be needless. In a series of three JAMA editorials from 1970 to 1975,37 the AMA's General Council fretted about capricious juries ("a jury is likely to conclude that the pain and anguish of any surgery is worth substantial recompense"), and concluded that unnecessary surgery, "is almost always dealt with as an ordinary case of professional liability based on negligent diagnosis." The offending physician was now characterized (for better or worse) as careless or ignorant, rather than criminal. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| Unbelievably, a national wireless company (Cingular™) tried to modify their customer contract by including fine print preventing consumers from participating in class-action lawsuits. However, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals quickly overruled the fraudulent and "illegal" stipulation."4
Similarly, U.S. Senate Bill S.800 was authored ".. . |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| Expert opinion was tainted by money or fear of lawsuits and substituted for the truth. Any resulting death should not be regarded as accidental. The truth was hidden in favor of personal gain or self-preservation. This act results in a loss of patients' rights and freedom to choose!
Young men—patriots —go to war to protect their country and the freedoms of their fellow citizens. They strive to preserve the ideals of the framers of our Constitution. |
Bill Sardi
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 Attorneys have filed lawsuits on behalf of the public against sunscreen manufacturers for misleading labels that falsely claim their products block UV-A and UV-B sun rays. [Los Angeles Times March 30, 2006] Sunscreen products that contain microfine titanium dioxide exhibit greater protection from both UV-A and UV-B sun rays. [British Journal Dermatology 124: 258-63, 1991] However, total blockage of solar vitamin D production is not advised. A few minutes of unfiltered sunlight offers obvious health benefits. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| How Pharmaceuticals Avoid Criticism
Before we completely leave our greedy pharmaceutical corporations/suspects, let's peer just a bit deeper into the bag of tricks used by the pharmaceuticals to avoid lawsuits, criticism from the media, and public scrutiny.
When a drug, like human insulin, becomes fodder for heretics, activists, or the media, corporations already have a contingency plan for dealing with various detractors.
• Threaten the media. If unsubstantiated anecdotal claims are printed, a lawsuit will be filed. |
| The Class Action Fairness Act seeks to remove class action lawsuits from the purview of individual states. Instead, all class actions would be adjudicated in federal courts, where, if they have it their way, corporations will have liabilities capped by law.
Imagine the atrocities that could occur if the Class Action Fairness Act were law and Dick Armey5 successfully appends corporate liability exemption for pharmaceuticals into another incarnation of the Homeland Security Act. Vaccinations have already been mandated not only for our military troops but for all first-responders. |
| Many just lawsuits against corporations never see the light of day because of the costs of litigation, and today, only very wealthy or very naive attorneys are willing to tackle the cadre of attorneys employed by a recalcitrant corporation. Even with the deck already stacked in their favor, we now find corporations lobbying to remove what little judicial access remains to the average citizen.
Public Citizen recently released (2004) a press statement indicating Attorney Generals from eleven states have opposed a proposed bill before Congress. |
Devra Davis
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| For many years he defended the company against lawsuits from some of its asbestos-exposed workforce. In 1964 he published precisely what Turner & Newall had asked of him in 1955, telling a New York Academy of Sciences conference on asbestos that the 1932 U.K. asbestos regulations might have completely eliminated occupational hazards.14 Barry Castleman has written the definitive public history of this secret industry. He testifies regularly for asbestos-poisoned workers and their families. Castleman obtained copies of the 1955 drafts as part of a legal discovery. |
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