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The Center For Consumer Freedom/Promoting Personal Responsibility and Protecting Consumer Choice says:

Every year around this time, state legislators return to work armed with a laundry list of proposals to replace last year's failed bills. For the bevy of big brother bureaucrats out to tax and regulate certain foods, this year is no different. They've come to the table with a buffet of new bills supplanting consumer choice and personal responsibility with big government bureaucracy. Thankfully, a separate group of legislators has proposed a new wave of "Cheeseburger Bills" designed to prevent frivolous obesity litigation against restaurants and food producers.
So far fourteen states have passed "Cheeseburger Bills." This year, ten more states (Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, and Wyoming) have proposed similar legislation. Of particular interest is New Mexico's "Right To Eat Enchiladas Act."

This is not the only case McDonalds has had to fight. Last summer, McDonald's was sued for not having changed over to a healthier cooking oil.

"..a new lawsuit filed in federal court in San Francisco insists the burger giant has failed in its promise to move to a healthier cooking oil, and it is being brought not by fry-eaters but by Kathy Fettke, a "personal coach" and infomercial pitchwoman who "is living her dream by helping others live their dreams."

I have my own dream. That someday we get real tort reform. But I won't hold my breath.

Thank god almighty that the republicans are going to win a majority in congress and the senate in 1996 because thier contract with america specifically says they are going to pass tort reform bills and surely the republicans wont lie to the american people just to get votes from a bunch of (r)doltarous sheeple time and time again.Thier word is bond after all.So all we have to do is sit back and wait for nov 3 to roll around in 1996 then stuff like this lawsuit wont ever happen again.Yep i'll just be sitting around waiting for 1996 to come . I also hear that in the year 2000 the republican s might actually gain the white house along with the congress and the senate and boy when that happens watch out.You will see the goverment shrink back down to its constituition limits and size faster then you can say federalist papers i just cant wait.

If a person knows or should know that eating copious orders of supersized McDonald's products is unhealthy and may result in weight gain," Sweet had written, "it is not the place of the law to protect them from their own excesses."

What part of that is hard to understand?

I have my own dream. That someday we get real tort reform. But I won't hold my breath.

I have the same dream Lark, and the same cynicism that it will happen.

And anyway, we can't sue one corporation for causing our obesity. If we list all the corporations that manufacture all the high-fat and high-carb food we eat, we'd be spending our lives in court. It's called supply and demand. If we didn't demand it they wouldn't supply it. A little personal responsibility might be a better idea?

And that this lawsuit was brought on behalf of two children is just another example of widespread non-parenting.

Joanie, I am down 12 pounds in the last month, thanks 20% to your input and 80% my amazing willpower. :-) How's your conditioning going?