It has been a great first week at Food Safety News. Hopefully we are covering stories that the larger media is not and in a way that is helpful. If some of my readers here on Marler Blog have story ideas and/or want to write a contributed article on FSN, please click here
Lawyer Op-Ed
A Good Day Watching Soccer
My 10 year old daughter’s soccer team, the "butt kickers," lost 5 to 0 today. Still was fun to watch.
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Food Safety News takes the Internet by storm – www.foodsafetynews.com
Spending most of the week in DC gave me a chance to promote and get feedback on the now six day old online publication – www.foodsafetynews.com. So far, so good. Not only are we able to highlight some of the best sources of Food Safety information on the web – like Bites and Barfblog…
CDC – Update on the Epidemiology of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli in the United States
A busy day in Washington DC
I must admit I like Washington DC. Every time I get here I seem to pack much in, because there is always so much to do. I had a full day today and will be on the Hill all Friday pitching food safety.
I started out the morning with a presentation to the American Insurance…
Cy Vance Jr., newly elected Manhattan District Attorney, stole my job – 21 years ago
A little over a year ago, I hosted a fund-raiser for Cy’s run for Manhattan District Attorney. It was a bit of the “who’s who” of the Seattle legal community – primarily white-collar criminal types (that being the lawyers for those criminals). It was what you would expect from a Cy event – a…
Donna M. Byrne, a.k.a. Food Law Professor, notices Food Safety News
Professor Donna M. Byrne of William Mitchell College of Law gave us a “shout out” about Food Safety News today:
Kudos to Marler Clark for launching a promising and informative new website. Food Safety News is a news site rather than a blog (Bill Marler’s MarlerBlog is still going strong too). The site has reporters…
The American Agricultural Law Association has announced the 2009 winner of its Professional Scholarship Award
Richard L. Cupp, Jr.’s article, Moving Beyond Animal Rights: A Legal/Contractualist Critique 46 San Diego Law Review 27 (2009), was chosen for the award. Cupp’s article critiques the analogy made by some animal rights theorists between granting rights to animals and granting rights to corporations and to mentally incapable humans. The article documents the rapid…
Dan Mitchell of Slate’s “Daily Bread” notices Food Safety News
Dan Mitchell of Slate’s “Daily Bread” wrote this morning "Lawyers Launch Food Safety News Site:"
Marler Clark, perhaps the best-known law firm involved in food-safety litigation, has launched a news site that the firm describes as "a daily Web-based newspaper dedicated to reporting on issues surrounding food safety."
Bill Marler, the firm’s managing partner, will…




