After the Supreme Court effectively eviscerated the Voting Rights Act in Shelby County (allowing nine states, mostly in the South, to change their election laws without advance federal approval), many folks who care about protecting the voting rights of racial
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Farmworker Housing Linked to Consumer Demand for Safe Food
When a farmworker and her children were discovered living in a decommissioned walk-in freezer due to lack of housing, Marty Miller, executive director of the Office of Rural Development and Farm Worker Housing in Yakima, WA, was dismayed — but…
A Purse Is Part of a Person, Even When the Person is Locked in a Police Car and the Purse is Not
At issue in State vs. Byrd is whether a police officer violated federal and state privacy rights by searching a defendant’s purse incident to arrest after the defendant was secured in a police car and the purse was left on…
Ninth Circuit Approves of “Preemptive” Fitness for Duty Examination
Yesterday the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision approving of an employer’s use of a “preemptive” fitness for duty examination for an employee who exhibited bizarre and erratic behavior in the workplace, even though that behavior had not yet…
Queseria Bendita Listeria-Contaminated Cheese Recall
By Bill Marler
The FDA announced yesterday a recall by Queseria Bendita of certain cheese products due to fears that the products are contaminated by Listeria monocytogenes. The potentially lethal bacteria has been found at the Queseria Bendita facility and in samples…
Mexican-style Cheese – Quesco Fresco by Queseria Bendita Linked to Listeria Illnesses in Oregon and Washington
By Bill Marler
According to press reports, two Oregon mothers have been sickened by listeria after eating tainted Mexican-style cheese made in Yakima, causing their babies to be born with a serious illness.
Another person got sick as well in Washington state after…
Exempt Wells: Attorney General Weighs In
David Lester, writing in the Yakima Herald-Republic reports on the Attorney General’s opinion on Ecology’s authority to restrict new exempt wells.
YAKIMA, Wash. — The Washington Department of Ecology has legal authority to forbid new water wells, including the small,…
Seattle law firm files sixth lawsuit against ConAgra over Salmonella-tainted pot pies
Marler Clark filed a sixth lawsuit against ConAgra today on behalf of a victim of the Banquet pot pie Salmonella outbreak that sickened hundreds. The lawsuit was filed in Yakima County Superior Court on behalf of Yakima resident Renee Barnes, who…
It’s that simple ó wash your hands
By Bill Marler
Yakima Herald Republic
August 17, 2006
Have you hugged a stranger today?
Public health experts don’t find that an odd question. In fact, it may be a rallying cry in the event of a pandemic influenza.
They certainly won’t be…
Bacterial illness linked to raw milk infecting more people
March 30, 2006
Yakima Herald-Republic
Jessica Wambach
Since the first of the year, the Yakima Health District has seen a spike in the number of cases of a bacterial infection that causes stomach sickness.
Many of the 41 cases of…