I asked our AI friends – What are the pros and cons of replacing FDA Commissioner Makary with me – here is the response? This is a very timely question — Makary resigned as FDA Commissioner today, May 12, 2026, amid reports of internal tensions and policy clashes, with the vaping dispute reportedly being a […]
Kevin Kelton, a political and humor columnist, wrote an interesting article called The RNC’s Latest Political Target: Frivolous Lawsuits for the Washington Dispatch. It begins: “First thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” Of course, after Shakespeare wrote that populist sound bite, Sir Francis Bacon took credit for his plays and Hollywood screenwriters took […]
Stephanie Banchero of the Chicago Tribune reported on October 9 that, in an unusual move, federal authorities have indicted a Downstate man on felony charges of conspiracy, transporting uninspected poultry and lying to federal authorities in a 2002 food poisoning incident that sickened more than 100 children and teachers at a Joliet school. Edward L. […]
As Ann Strosnider, reporter for the Kitsap Sun, said in her story Attorney says higher education needs citizen leadership, I told a luncheon gathering of Olympic College supporters Monday that higher education faces a crisis in Washington state, and the state Legislature refuses to show any leadership. “The stakes are enormous,” the Bainbridge Island resident […]
As Kitsap Sun Staff Writer Ann Strosnider has reported, I will be the featured speaker at the college’s annual community luncheon Monday at Bremer Student Center. The luncheon is the kickoff event to the annual fund-raising campaign for the Olympic College Foundation, which raises money for student scholarships and grants, program grants, and faculty development […]
Globe Staff Writer Wally Kennedy has reported that the E. coli outbreak that hit a Joplin day-care center in May and June, affecting as many as 26 children, has generated its first lawsuit. My firm filed this lawsuit against Kid’s Korner Day Care Center last week on behalf of Patricia and Asa Wasden, parents of […]
As Marlene Hunt of the PioneerLocal reported, a settlement has been reached between 49 victims of the salmonella outbreak traced to the former Chili’s Bar and Grill in Vernon Hills and Brinker International, owner of the franchise. My firm filed individual lawsuits and a class action lawsuit in federal court in Chicago during 2003 seeking […]
Marler Clark filed a lawsuit Tuesday on behalf of Patricia and Asa Wasden, the parents of Ian Wasden, a two-year-old boy who suffered from Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS) after contracting E. coli O157:H7 last June at Kid’s Korner daycare in Joplin. “After the first child attending Kid’s Korner tested positive for E. coli, the daycare […]
On Thursday, Marler Clark filed a second E. coli lawsuit against Sodexho, Inc., the food provider for Sequoias Portola Valley retirement facility. This second lawsuit was filed by Sarah Ish, one of thirteen Sequoias residents and employees who confirmed positive with E. coli infections during the outbreak, and one of seven residents who were hospitalized […]
As the Associated Press reported today, Outback Steakhouse Inc. this week closed on its $42.5 million deal for the rights to 76 restaurants in the Chi-Chi’s chain, which was beleaguered by bankruptcy and a hepatitis outbreak. Chi-Chi’s was left reeling by a hepatitis A outbreak last fall that sickened 660 people who ate at a […]
Two confirmed and four probable cases of E. coli O157:H7 bacterial illnesses have been linked by the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) to ground beef purchased at B & G Foods of Galesburg, IL. The product implicated in the illnesses was purchased from B & G between August 10 and August 16, 2004. A […]
As Clint Williams of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported yesterday, It’s been a rough year for Cindy Horney. Ten days of fever, nausea and diarrhea were only the beginning. The case of salmonella food poisoning triggered a case of Reiter syndrome, an uncommon form of arthritis. Intense pain in her hips made it hard to walk […]
As Jane Lerner of the Journal News reported today, Marler Clark has filed a lawsuit against BJ’s Wholesale Club on behalf of the parents of a Bergen County, N.J., boy who got sick from a strain of bacteria identical to the one that nearly killed a Rockland girl two years ago. Three-year-old Owen Langan of […]
Marler Clark has settled the claims of 49 individuals who were infected with Salmonella after eating at the Vernon Hills Chili’s Grill & Bar in late June and early July of 2003. “We were far along in the process of preparing these cases for trial when settlement discussions finally seemed to turn serious,” said Marler […]
Fred Kiga, Gov. Gary Locke’s former revenue director and chief of staff, has been appointed to the University of Washington Board of Regents. Another close Locke ally, Bill Marler of Bainbridge Island, was appointed by the governor to the Higher Education Coordinating Board. Marler, a lawyer and a key member of Locke’s “kitchen cabinet,” will […]
A piece of legislation called the California Safe Schools Lunch Act (AB 1988) was recently passed by the State Assembly and now awaits action by the State Senate. Unfortunately, its positive-sounding title might not satisfy the State’s own truth-in-labeling laws. The Bill’s passage and the passage of similar laws around the country could put school […]