Saturday, September 5, 2026
This is the ninth Saturday column. Last Saturday’s edition ran under the headline The Federal CyclosporaOutbreak Added 528 People, 41 Hospitalizations and Three New States on the Last Thursday of the Season, and it closed on a
On September 2 the Washington State Department of Health posted an outbreak notice linking thirteen Salmonella Bovismorbificans illnesses in seven Washington counties to broccoli sprouts produced by Evergreen Fresh Sprouts, LLC of Moyie Springs, Idaho. Two more people are sick in Montana
Nara Organics posted an update on August 27, 2026, the same day the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared the infant botulism outbreak linked to its Whole Milk Organic Infant Formula over,
On August 27, the same day FDA and CDC declared the Nara Organics infant botulism outbreak over, the company posted an update announcing that it plans to bring its formula back to U.S. shelves with European dairy and what it
Elizabeth Hanley has joined the nationally renowned plaintiff firm Stritmatter Law as an equity partner effective September 1, 2026.
Elizabeth is a past President of the Washington Association for Justice and the President Elect of the American Association for Justice
Can employees be fired for organizing a protest at work that violates workplace rules if the protest isn’t actually about work? According to a recently released Advice Memorandum from the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”), the answer may be yes.
Washington named the Sequim dairy on a web page on July 2. Two months later, not one news outlet has written a word. It is the dairy’s fourth outbreak since 2009. Its milk has been pulled from shelves six times
On August 14, 2026, Washington Attorney General (AG) Nick Brown released the state’s first-ever Data Privacy Report (the “Report”). The Report examines how the modern data economy incentivizes the collection and retention of personal information, catalogs the harms that can
Online bill payment company Doxo will pay $2.1 million to settle an FTC complaint that alleged that the firm and two of its co-founders used misleading search advertising to impersonate consumers’ billers and misled consumers about junk fees they added
