Public Health Advocacy Institute
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“What persuaded us was, in a sense, the media. This thing is so radioactive in terms of media attention that cases will bring in other lawyers and bring in other cases.” — Fortune magazine
“We can sue anywhere we want to and we will.” — Center for Science in the Public Interest Litigation attorney Steve Gardner at the 2004 PHAI conference
“What persuaded us was, in a sense, the media. This thing is so radioactive in terms of media attention that cases will bring in other lawyers and bring in other cases.” — PHAI board member Richard Daynard in Fortune magazine, January 21, 2003
“I can't sue to make people exercise more ... But we can do something about fast food.” — John Banzhaf at the June 2003 PHAI conference
“Can physicians who do not advise overweight or obese or morbidly obese patients to lose weight, to take reasonable efforts to help them do so, might ought [sic] to be subject to malpractice action?” — Fast-food lawsuit advocate John Banzhaf at the June 2003 PHAI conference
“[T]he Legal Strategies Workshop portion of the First Annual Conference on Legal Approaches to the Obesity Epidemic (the "Workshop") is intended to encourage and support litigation against the food industry.” — Affadavit for participants of a closed-door planning session at the Public Health Advocacy Institute's (PHAI's) June 2003 conference on "Legal Approaches to the Obesity Epidemic"
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