Guest guest Posted June 11, 2002 Report Share Posted June 11, 2002 Like the cigarettes, right!? let's get'em! WatchDog -------------- The man who would sue America's junk-food industry www.upperworld.org Monday, June 10 2002 @ 10:51 AM CDT Contributed by: Michelle " WASHINGTON (NewZealandNews)Professor John Banzhaf likes to pose this challenge to students in his graduate class on legal activism at George Washington University in Washington, DC. Think of something that really irritates you or smacks of obvious civil injustice. Then think of a way of using the law to right the wrong and seek redress. " " In other words, as Banzhaf puts it with the freewheeling candour we have come to expect from the American legal system, let's sue the bastards. It's a unique approach to legal education that has had some astonishing results. Banzhaf's students successfully forced the stuffy Washington Cosmos Club to admit women and got dry-cleaners to stop charging women more than men for laundering their shirts. Back in the 1970s, they sued Spiro Agnew, the Vice-President who left office in disgrace shortly before his boss, Richard Nixon, forcing him to return the bribes he had received. " ... ------- I have a question; Since I'm french, I don't know what this means: Falcon deaths blamed on pigeon fanciers Whats a fancier? I saw it on the same upperworld site WD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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