Yesterday, the Georgia Law Review produced a first rate conference on “Civil Rights and Civil Wants?” at the Dean Rusk Center at the University of Georgia Law School in Athens, Georgia. The symposium commemorated the 50th anniversary of the desegregation
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National Trust Weighs in on Saving UGA Dorm
Turns out we're in the middle of a national historic preservation controversy right here at University of Georgia. The University Architects' office has proposed to tear down Rutherford Hall, a women's dorm built in 1939. (Full disclosure – my…
Georgia Theater to Reopen
Family of Ohio Salmonella Victim to File Lawsuit
By News Desk
The family of a woman killed in an Athens, Ohio Salmonella outbreak will file a lawsuit Monday against the Athens-based restaurant Casa Lopez.The suit is the second filed by Seattle-based food poisoning law firm Marler Clark on behalf of individuals…
THE 2010 ATHENS OHIO CASA LOPEZ SALMONELLA OUTBREAK
On May 5, 2010, the Athens City County Health Department (ACCHD) received notification of four patients admitted to the local hospital in the preceding 24 hours with nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. All patients had reported eating at the same local…
Best in Law Blogs : The LexBlog Network : April 11, 2011
On another gorgeous evening in Seattle (hey, it can be nice here too), it’s time to look at ten of the best from the 153 posts to hit The LexBlog Network today. Coming from Greg Bates and Jonathan Rosenfeld, we have…
More on Urban Chickens
Following up on Matt's blog post last week on urban chickens, and on my previous post, today I found this remarkably detailed article in the Athens-Banner Herald on cities near Athens considering lifting their ban on chickens in residential…
Local Milk
From time to time on this blog we've written about local agriculture, including a post I wrote about a controversy in Fall 2009 where the Georgia agriculture department seized a large shipment of raw millk from a local purveyor.Today's Athens…
Slide Show of Georgia Theater Rebuild
Previously I blogged about the historic Georgia Theater, almost destroyed by fire a year ago. The Athens Banner-Herald now has a slide show showing reconstruction in the interior. It's a pretty interesting pictorial history of the restoration of the building,…
CDC makes us worry about Salmonella in Eggs too
By Bill Marler
Sitting down for breakfast in our last day in Athens, I decided to check my Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) alert. This popped right out – “The CDC estimates that nearly 3 million eggs sold each year are contaminated…