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Guest Post – Where Things Stand with EU Product Liability Directive Transposition
Today’s guest post comes from three Reed Smith colleagues and fellow European Union Product Liability Directive nerds, Jamie Lanphear, Greg Speier, and Wim Vandenberghe. As always, our guest posters get all the cheers for their work along with any jeers, though...
Twenty-Seven Years Ago Today: E. coli O157:H7 in Well No. 6 at the Washington County Fair
Thanks to Cara Lynn Shultz at People for going back to this one. She picked the right date. September 9 is not the day people got sick at the Washington County Fair — that had already happened. It is the day the laboratory proved why.A week in...
Rights Inflation
OverviewAcademics like to argue academic things. Most of the time, those arguments remain academic and are not worth a producer’s time. But occasionally an academic theory escapes the seminar room and begins to affect the legal rules under which farmers and...
Washington Has 16 of the 22 People Sickened by Evergreen Fresh Sprouts Broccoli Sprouts with Salmonella. In 2014, Washington Had 11 of the 19 Sickened by the Same Grower’s Clover Sprouts, That Time with E. coli O121. Marler Clark Filed Four Lawsuits Over That One.
The outbreak in the news this week is a Salmonella outbreak, not an E. coli outbreak. It belongs on this blog anyway, because the company at the center of it is the same Idaho sprouter that caused a multistate E. coliO121 outbreak twelve years...
Air Force campaign aims to put more bombers in the sky
The service hopes to solve logistical issues that have plagued the upkeep of its aging bomber fleet of B-52 Stratofortress and B-1 Lancer aircraft by ensuring a more streamlined parts pipeline, as well as upgrading the bombers to last until the 2050s.
More than 11 tons of World War II ordnance cleared from Okinawa in a year
Japan’s military cleared 20,138 pieces of unexploded ordnance weighing 11.47 tons during the past fiscal year, as the former World War II battleground continues to yield thousands of pieces of buried ammunition.
Trump's mail-in ballot rule could cost 'military personnel and their family members' their vote, ex-national security leaders warn
President Donald Trump speaks during a lunch with African leaders in the State Dining Room of the White House, Wednesday, July 9, 2025, in Washington (AP Photo/Evan Vucci). The Trump administration is on the verge of disenfranchising hundreds of thousands of overseas...
Man who lured 11-year-old boy to campsite where he kidnapped him, tied him up with shoelaces and taped his mouth shut learns his fate
Inset: Darnell Hairston. Background: Cops in Florida arrest Hairston after he allegedly kidnapped an 11-year-old boy (Flagler County Sheriff's Office). A 61-year-old Florida man who kidnapped an 11-year-old boy at a campsite and tied him up with shoelaces and duct...
Fi Recalls Two Dog Supplements for Possible Salmonella — Sold Direct, on Amazon and on Chewy
Fi, the New York pet-technology company, is recalling two lots of dog supplements because they may be contaminated with Salmonella. The recalled products are Fi Calming supplement for Dogs, 180 g, lot 26118, and Fi 8-in-1 Formula supplement for Dogs, 180 g, lot...