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View multimedia news release The Wacky Warning Label Contest, now in it's eighth year, is conducted by Michigan Lawsuit Abuse Watch, M-LAW, to reveal how lawsuits, and concer n about lawsuits, have created a need for common sense warnings on produ cts. The winning labels were selected from a list of M-LAW's finalists by list eners of the Dick Purtan show on Detroit radio station, WOMC-FM. The lab el on the toilet brush was found by Ed Gyetvai, of Oldcastle, Ontario. H e receives $500 and a copy of the national bestselling book, "The Death of Common Sense," by Philip K Howard. The $250 second place award went to Matt Johnson of Naperville, Illinois for a label on a popular scooter for children that warns: "This product moves when used." Third place and $100 goes to Ann Marie Taylor of Camde n, South Carolina who found the following warning on a digital thermomet er that can be used to take a person's temperature several different way s: "Once used rectally, the thermometer should not be used orally." "Warning labels are a sign of our lawsuit-plagued times," said Robert B Dorigo Jones, M-LAW president. "From the moment we raise our head in the morning off pillows that bear those famous 'Do Not Remove' warnings, to when we drop back in bed at night, we are overwhelmed with warnings. Pl aintiff's lawyers who file the lawsuits that prompt these warnings argue they are making us safer, but the warnings have become so long that few of us read them anymore-- even the ones we should read. Hopefully, M-LA W's Wacky Warning Label Contest will motivate everyone to read their war nings again, and maybe even motivate judges to get tougher on frivolous lawsuits." M-LAW is a non-partisan, non-profit organization working to increase publ ic awareness of how the litigation explosion is hurting America. M-LAW i s dedicated to restoring common sense and personal responsibility to the courts.
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