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FDA Now Says, “Romaine Calm.” Romaine Lettuce Caused a Summer 2026 E. coli O157:H7 Outbreak. It Waited Until It Closed the File, and It Named No Grower and No Processor – Again.
On September 10, 2026, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration closed its investigation into a fourteen-person E. coli O157:H7 outbreak, reference #1382, and for the first time told the public what the food was: romaine lettuce. It named no grower, no...
SEC Proposes to Repeal Longstanding Pay-to-Play Restrictions on Investment Advisers
On September 3, 2026, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) voted to propose rescinding in its entirety Rule 206(4)-5 under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the agency’s longstanding “pay-to-play rule” applicable to...
Supreme Court Action Revives FCC Media Bureau’s Political Ad Guidance
Late Friday afternoon, the U.S. Supreme Court granted a stay of the Fourth Circuit’s decision setting aside the FCC Media Bureau’s guidance on entitlement to the lowest unit charge (“LUC”) for certain political ads placed on broadcast TV and...
Unnamed Federal Officials Told the Washington Post They Are About to Declare the Largest Cyclospora Outbreak in U.S. History Over. The National Count Is Still Climbing, 8,137 Confirmed Illnesses Have No Named Source, and Congress Is Still Waiting for an Answer.
Federal officials are poised to declare the end of the largest known Cyclospora outbreak in the history of the United States. I did not learn that from CDC or FDA. As I write this, CDC’s own outbreak page, stamped September 3, still lists the...
Army family to receive $11 million settlement for daughter’s brain injury suffered during birth
The couple’s daughter, referred to in court records as P.M., is now 4 years old and cannot walk or sit without support. She has a feeding tube and will require 24-hour nursing care for life.
Join Troutman Pepper Locke at S&P Global’s Webinar on the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act
Troutman Pepper Locke Partner James Stevens will serve as a panelist for “The 21st Century ROAD to Unlocking Community Bank Growth” webinar, hosted by S&P Global Market Intelligence on September 17. The webinar will bring together industry leaders to...
5-year-old and 7-year-old kids forced to walk to Publix because they were hungry and their mothers locked them out: Cops
Insets, from left: Latoya Garland and Mikequisha Gordon (Miami-Dade Corrections). Background: The intersection of NE 7th Avenue and 132nd Street in North Miami, where Garland and Gordon allegedly locked their kids, ages 5 and 7 out of their home (Google Maps). Two...
Man walks into hospital ER covered in blood with a collapsed lung after acquaintance stabs him over trash left in a car: Cops
Inset: Travis Shockley (St. Louis County Sheriff's Office). Background: West 1st St. in Duluth, Minn. (Google Maps). A Minnesota man was charged with assault after allegedly stabbing an acquaintance after an argument over garbage. Travis Shockley, 38, was arrested by...
Deputies storm insect-infested residence after ER staff report injured toddler, discover woman living in a 'bed full of maggots': Cops
Inset: Justice Anderson (Orangeburg County Sheriff's Office). Background: Manlicher Drive in Orangeburg, S.C. (Google Maps). A South Carolina man was arrested after police found his home, where he lived with a vulnerable adult and a 1-year-old child, in "appalling"...