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To: Unknown Freeper
How did this end up in US court? She is English, flying from England on Air France. The only thing American about her case was the intended destination. That is enough for jurisdiction? Sounds to me like a case that belonged in Her Majesty's less generous courts.

Even her disability isn't American. The FDA's chief bragging point for decades was that it never approved thalidomide when most of the world was tragically using it as the sedative of choice for pregnant women. The article refers to it as "the leprosy-treating drug thalidomide," but actually its use in leprosy wasn't discovered until after the drug had been banned from general usage. The serendipitous discovery of its benefit against an otherwise untreatable leprosy complication eventually led to its use in several other diseases. It is now FDA approved, albeit under stringent regulations.

27 posted on 08/13/2004 9:53:36 PM PDT by JohnBovenmyer (I)
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To: JohnBovenmyer

Our courts will accept too many foreign cases lik this one and our taxpayers will end up paying the court costs.


62 posted on 08/13/2004 11:10:34 PM PDT by GeronL (KERRY: "I went to Cambodia with the CIA and all I got was a hat")
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