GWU Law Prof Wins Public Health Victory

WASHINGTON - EntSun -- A law professor just won a public health victory when he persuaded a judge to block HHS Secretary Kennedy Jr.'s efforts to make changes to the government's childhood vaccine schedule.

But Richard Hughes IV, a professor at the George Washington University Law School, was only carrying on a proud and long standing tradition at the law school which established no fewer than three major new public health movements, won numerous legal actions protecting the public health, and saved millions of dollars by getting antismoking messages on radio and television, and banning cigarette commercials.

Public interest law professor notes that his law school established three major life-saving public health movements.

They include:

1. USING LEGAL ACTION TO SLASH SMOKING AND SMOKING DEATHS: e.g., to get hundreds of millions of dollars worth of antismoking messages on radio and TV (which produced the first major decline in U.S. cigarette consumption), ban cigarette commercials, help to kill off Joe Camel and cigarette billboards, promote highly successful law suits against cigarette makers, join with Dr. Louis Sullivan in leading the fight against menthol in cigarettes, provide the basis for the government's successful RICO law suit against the major tobacco companies and for the unique remedy of corrective advertising (a remedy also established by GWU law), pave the way for FDA jurisdiction over nicotine, and for higher health insurance premiums for smokers under the Affordable Care Act, and more.

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2. USING LEGAL ACTION AGAINST OBESITY: which began with a fat lawsuit against McDonald's which settled for $12.5 million, and which has now grown to at least 10 additional successful fat law suits (or even threats of law suits) which are already producing major changes, as well as prompting legislation such as that requiring ingredient labeling on packaged food sold in stores, and calorie disclosures on chain restaurant menus.

3. THE NONSMOKERS' RIGHTS MOVEMENT WHICH HAS BEEN THE MOST IMPORTANT FACTOR IN SLASHING SMOKING: and which began when GWU law students first got no-smoking sections on airplanes, which lead to a total smoking ban on airplanes as well as in many other public places, the first injunction against smoking in the workplace, which helped lead to other workplace smoking bans, using the ADA to provide protection for sensitive nonsmokers, smoking bans in many other countries under the FCTC [Framework Convention on Tobacco Control], smoking bans in cars and in some private homes and apartments.

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The professors and generations of GWU law students (called "Banzhaf's Bandits") who likewise brought many successful legal actions, helped establish GWU's law school as a major factor in protecting public health, and demonstrated the enormous but largely untapped power of legal activism to save lives.

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