Lawsuit Deemed Frivolous

Seems the nation’s food police aren’t doing so well when it comes to winning frivolous lawsuits, and thank goodness for that. The latest dismissal of the Center for Science in the Public Interest’s lawsuit against McDonald’s, where the CSPI argued that Happy meal toys were making kids fat, is just one of many in a long series of court defeats for this group. Remember when CSPI sued Denny’s over the salt content of its food, or how about the groups similar lawsuits against KFC and Burger King over trans fats - all of which have been thrown out of court. What’s not so good is the sad fact that legally worthless lawsuits such as these clog court systems for months, sometimes years. Judges are generally reluctant to find an action frivolous, so as not to discourage people from using the courts to resolve disputes, but in these instances it’s good the judges overseeing these cases had the wherewithal to deem them as the invalid and frivolous tripe that they really were. Now, for wasting the court’s and other parties’ time, sanctions should be imposed by the court upon the lawyers who present such frivolous claims.