Chiropractor Sues FTC to Establish Right to Advocate Chiropractic.

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 20, 1998--Today, Terry A. Rondberg, D.C., chiropractor, author of Under the Influence of Modern Medicine, and president of World Chiropractic Alliance, a watchdog organization, filed an action in Arizona Federal District Court against the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") seeking an injunction to stop the FTC from interfering with the right of authors to advocate the benefits of chiropractic and other forms of alternative health care.

Dr. Rondberg filed this action because of two recent unprecedented FTC enforcement actions against another chiropractic advocate and a not for profit organization. In those actions, the FTC is attempting to prohibit the public advocacy of the benefits of alternative health care. These two FTC enforcement actions have sent a chilling shockwave throughout the health care community, and are a direct threat to the first amendment rights of health care advocates, as well as to the American public.

Dr. Rondberg has hired prominent health care attorney, Richard Jaffe, of Houston. Jaffe is best known for his successful representation of Houston cancer doctor Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski during his decade-long struggle against the FDA. In the chiropractic community, he is also well known for successfully representing New Jersey Chiropractors in a federal racketeering action against employees of the New Jersey Department of Insurance, Fraud Division.

According to Jaffe, "The FTC is attempting to police and censor matters of pure advocacy which are fully protected by the First Amendment. We hope and expect that the Federal Court will send a clear message to the FTC."

According to Jaffe, it will take about three to six months for an initial Court ruling on the issue.