X-Message-Number: 492.1 From: Saul Kent Subject: return of property seized Feb. 26, 1987 The Life Extension Foundation A Non-Profit Tax Exempt Foundation 2490 Griffin Road Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33312 In Hollywood Area: (305) 966-4886 Toll-Free Number 1-800-841-LIFE For further information: Saul Kent 714/780-3252 FAX 714/780-5758 or Catherine J. Frompovich, Ph.D. 215/346-8461 For Immediate Release Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Oct. 4, 1991 -- A Federal Judge granted The Life Extension Foundation and its officers Saul Kent, President, and William Faloon, Vice-President, the return of nutrient supplements and all business documents which the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had seized on February 26, 1987. A Court Order was signed by U.S. District Judge James C. Paine on October 1, 1991. Jude Paine denied the government's motion for a stay of the order. The Motion for return of The Foundation's property was filed pursuant to Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. The handing down by the U.S. District Court of an order to return a nutrition supplement company's seized products and business papers comes at a time when the U.S. Congress is considering a proposed bill (H.R.2597) which would, if passed, negate a business's ability to have recourse to a court of law, except on appeal AFTER the products had been destroyed! H.R.2597 would empower the FDA so that any legal action brought by that agency would, in effect, deny a business recourse to a court of law to obtain a court order against the FDA, as happened in the case of The Life Extension Foundation, et al. In view of this court order (and others against the FDA in 1991), The Life Extension Foundation recommends that Congress re-assess H.R.2597 for its denial of due process BEFORE it moves this bill along on its way to passage into Public Law. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=492.1