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Resident Fellow Theodore Frank

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The plaintiffs’ bar and media have claimed early “success” in obesity and lifestyle litigation; however, several fundamentally different kinds of lawsuits are being grouped under one “obesity litigation” umbrella, and each one has different policy implications for obesity and for the legal system. A closer look shows that the plaintiffs’ successes have been thin gruel and that the obesity litigation to date has been much more successful in transferring wealth to attorneys than in advancing legitimate public policy concerns.

Ted Frank is a resident fellow and the director of the Liability Project at AEI.