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https://tdefender.substack.com/p/pfizer-covid-vaccine-deceptive-marketing-kansas-lawsuit-state-court

The state of Kansas can sue Pfizer in state court for misleading the public about its COVID-19 vaccines, a federal judge ruled today.

Pfizer tried to keep the case in federal court, arguing that the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act), which shields COVID-19 vaccine makers from liability for injuries caused by the vaccines, “completely preempts” consumer protection claims made by the state of Kansas.

Ray Flores, senior outside counsel for Children’s Health Defense (CHD), called the ruling a “major victory.”

“This first-of-its-kind ruling declares Pfizer’s deceptions aren’t afforded carte blanche treatment, as Mr. Bourla [CEO of Pfizer] probably assumed they’d be,” Flores said.

CHD General Counsel Kim Mack Rosenberg agreed. “This decision is important because it creates a viable path for Pfizer to potentially be held accountable for its wrongdoing on a massive scale.”

On June 17, 2024, Kansas sued Pfizer, alleging the pharmaceutical giant misled the public by marketing its COVID-19 vaccine as “safe and effective” while concealing known risks and critical data on limited effectiveness.

The lawsuit, filed by Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach in the District Court of Thomas County, alleged that beginning in 2021, Pfizer covered up the fact that the vaccine was connected to serious adverse events, including myocarditis and pericarditis, failed pregnancies and deaths.

The complaint also alleged the company falsely claimed that its original vaccine retained high efficacy while knowing that efficacy waned over time and didn’t protect against new variants.

Pfizer also misled the public by claiming the COVID-19 vaccine would prevent transmission, even though the company never studied the vaccine’s capability to prevent transmission.

By marketing the vaccine as safe and effective despite its known risks, Pfizer violated the Kansas Consumer Protection Act because millions of Kansans heard those misrepresentations, the complaint alleged.

Lawsuit is about deceptive marketing, not physical injuries or death

In July 2024, Pfizer successfully removed the Kansas lawsuit to federal court. However, in a September 2024 motion, Kansas asked for the case to be sent back to state court.

Pfizer filed an opposing motion in October 2024, in which it presented three arguments for why the case belonged in federal court. The final argument was that Kansas’ claims were “completely preempted by the PREP Act and are thus removable to federal court.”

In today’s ruling, U.S. District Judge Daniel D. Crabtree rejected all three of Pfizer’s arguments.

Crabtree rejected Pfizer’s PREP Act argument because all of Kansas’ claims are about deceptive marketing, not physical injury or death from Pfizer’s COVID-19 shot. “That point alone ends the debate,” Crabtree wrote.

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From the link:

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has launched an investigation into the leftist pro-censorship organization Media Matters for alleged coordination with other media watchdog groups accused by X owner Elon Musk of coordinating advertiser boycotts of the social media platform.

A civil investigative demand obtained by Reuters revealed that the regulator is seeking all documents that Media Matters has produced or received as part of the ongoing lawsuit launched by Musk in 2023, which alleges that it attempted to damage the site’s relationship with advertisers.

The commission is seeking information about the Washington, DC-based organization’s communications with similar Democrat-aligned groups, including a World Federation of Advertisers initiative called Global Alliance for Responsible Media — another subject of an ongoing X lawsuit.

Media Matters President Angela Carusone called the move by the FTC a “threat” by the Trump administration in a statement to the New York Post.

“Right-wing media figures holding key posts and abusing government power to target critics are two hallmarks of the Trump administration,” he said in a statement on Thursday. “Threats won’t work, our mission continues.”

While the FTC has yet to publicly comment on the investigation, Trump-appointed Chairman Andrew Ferguson said, “We must prosecute any unlawful collusion between online platforms, and confront advertiser boycotts which threaten competition among those platforms,” in a December statement on an unrelated case.

Ferguson later stated in April, “Drying up the advertising will dry up the idea. So, the risk of an advertiser boycott is a pretty serious risk to the free exchange of ideas.”

The left-wing watchdog was forced to lay off dozens of employees last May as they fought the “legal assault” by Musk, Carusone said at the time.

The group has often attacked Breitbart News and its late founder, Andrew Breitbart, smearing his platform as a “disaster” and a “hotbed of ridiculous smears.”

https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2025/05/22/ftc-launches-investigation-into-far-left-group-media-matters/

https://www.stevesailer.net/p/vox-baffling-that-supreme-court-tolerated

How many hundreds of billions does The Establishment owe in damages for racist affirmative action and DEI?

The Supreme Court’s 9-0 Ames decision this week in which the Justices finally cleared up a 44-year-long dispute among federal circuit courts, with five of the 12 districts holding that whites, men, and straights should be discriminated against in discrimination law, has mostly elicited rather baffled commentary in the mainstream media.

You see, if you accept the conventional wisdom about white supremacy and systemic racism, the news that the Supreme Court tolerated since 1981 an indefensibly blatant racist anti-white concoction with no legislative basis whatsoever is … well, hard to process. Does Not Compute in your worldview. ...

Meanwhile, in The Nation, Elie Mystal admits that the Supreme Court made the right decision, but worries that America will become bogged down in discrimination lawsuits.

Yes, there should be millions of discrimination lawsuits filed now, and every company which discriminated against whites must be punished.