Fw: CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT TO HEAR OUR CASE AGAINST C.D.A.

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This is significant!

Jerry Mittelman, DDS, FAPM

 

see: www.zeevkolman.net/friends.shtml

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" Freya Koss " <FreKoss

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Monday, September 22, 2003 12:49 PM

[AMALGAM] CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT TO HEAR OUR CASE AGAINST C.D.A.

 

 

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Freya Koss

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CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT TO HEAR OUR CASE AGAINST C.D.A.

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MOMENTUM SHIFTS TO MERCURY-FREE MOVEMENT

 

On Sept. 17, in what may be our most significant victory to date, the

California Supreme Court voted 5-2 to hear our case against the California

Dental Association and its notorious gag rule restricting the rights of

mercury-free dentists.

 

The CDA will now be forced to defend its so-called rules of conduct before

the nation's most closely watched State Supreme Court. The case was

summarized this way by the Los Angeles Daily Journal:

The (California Dental) Association had made public pronouncements

to assure the public that dental amalgam is safe. But (plaintiffs)

charged that the (CDA) orchestrated a campaign to prevent patients from

learning about mercury toxicity in amalgam and had retaliated

against dentists who issued warnings to patients.

 

** How good is our legal team, headed by Shawn Khorrami? Brilliant. On

Sept. 17, the Supreme Court turned down 158 petitions and granted only two.

One of them was ours.

 

** And how important were the friends-of-the-court letters? Extremely.

Spearheaded by our Director of International Outreach, Anita Vazquez Tibau,

our effort received a tremendous outpouring of letters to the Court from a

variety of sources -- including faith-based (e.g. Council of Churches,

Baptist Clergy of L.A.), minority (e.g. NAACP, Washoe Tribe), health care

(e.g., Physicians for Social Responsibility-L.A., Council of Black Nurses),

environmental (e.g., WaterKeepers, Ban Mercury Working Group), and consumer

(e.g., Calif. Citizens for Health, Consumer Attorneys of Calif.). They were

joined by letters from Congressman Dan Burton (R-Ind.), Congresswoman Diane

Watson (D-Calif.), Professor Jim Adams, and many dentists: Ron Dressler for

IAOMT, Jerry Smith for Holistic Dental Assoc., Terry Lee for Arizona H.D.A.,

Grant Layton for Environmental Dental Assoc., Dave Kennedy for Preventive

Dental Health Assoc., and others.

 

But note: The court has agreed to hear our case, so now we have a major

battle coming -- to win it. We will continue to need strong support from

all of you who have helped us in the past.

 

We now have the opportunity to present our cause before the high court and

force organized dentistry (1) to justify its gag rule in public; and (2) to

explain its deceptive practice of calling mercury fillings silver. This has

to be the ADA¹s worst nightmare.

 

 

 

 

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