Two dozen families plan to file a lawsuit today against Lane County and the Lane County Fair Board, seeking damages for illnesses caused by the biggest outbreak of E. coli bacteria in state history at last year’s county fair. All these folks became ill with a very deadly pathogen through no fault of their own.
June 2003
Marler Clark Files E. coli Lawsuit Against Lane County Fair Board
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Marler Clark filed a lawsuit today against the Lane County Fair Board on behalf of 29 individuals and families of individuals who were infected with E. coli O157:H7 during an outbreak at the Lane County Fair last summer.
A number of fairs and petting zoos have been implicated in E. coli outbreaks in recent…
Families file lawsuit over E. coli outbreak
By Marler Lawyer on
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Two dozen people sickened by the biggest E. coli outbreak in state history filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the Lane County Fair Board, claiming the board didn’t do enough to protect fairgoers given similar outbreaks in other states.
Eighty-two people became sick at the fair — nearly two-thirds of them younger than age 6. Twelve…