This is simply unacceptable. This botulism outbreak, frankly any outbreak that sickens babies, should never have happened. We can do more to protect the most vulnerable. The stork in “operation stork speed” clearly flew into a brick wall and crash landed. This child’s parents bought ByHeart Infant Formula at a Walmart. ByHeart utilized powdered organic […]
As Catherine Toolson’s University Wire story Washington State U. faculty react to pay raise reports, the Washington State University Board of Regents approved a large salary increase for President V. Lane Rawlins on May 7. Rawlins currently earns a base wage of $254,065 per year. Beginning June 1, his base salary will be upped to […]
My firm has filed lawsuits in Milwaukee on behalf of four children who were sickened by E. coli after eating at Sizzler restaurants. As the Associated Press reports, more than 60 people got sick and a 3-year-old South Milwaukee girl died after eating at the restaurants in July 2000. Investigators blamed Sizzler’s meat handling procedures […]
Joe Mandak of the Associated Press reported today that 14 out of 15 hepatitis claims against Chi Chi’s were settled in first mediation sessions. Two settlements involve more than $35,000 each, so they’ll have to be approved by the bankruptcy judge. “The amount of the settlements are confidential, although the cases we resolved are certainly […]
As Kenneth Vogel of the News Tribune reported in his article Initiatives have early momentum; November: Four committees have raised $130,000-plus, four initiative committees this week reported raising more than $130,000 each – a sign that the measures they’re supporting have a legitimate shot at appearing on the November ballot. Investor Nicolas Hanauer and a […]
This morning, Richard Roesler of the Spokesman Review reported that Locke may kill funding for Riverpoint project, which would spend $31.6 million this year to build the shell of a combination library, classroom and office building at Washington State University’s downtown Riverpoint campus. But Locke, who months ago proposed $6.6 million toward the project, is […]
As Becky Kramer reported for the Spokesman Review in her article Campaign launched for education trust fund, with more than 200,000 signatures to collect by July 2, the League of Education Voters is starting to fire up its initiative campaign. After a year of collecting input from parents, educators, business people and community members throughout […]
As Joshua L. Kwan reported in his San Jose Mercury News story Woman’s son sues over E. coli death, the son of an 85-year-old woman who died last year during an E. coli outbreak at a Portola Valley nursing home has sued the food service company that supplied contaminated spinach to the home. ”The wrong […]
As Tim Hay of the San Mateo County Times reported in his story Firm sued over E. coli outbreak, my firm has filed a lawsuit on behalf of the son of 85-year-old Alice McWalter, one of at least 16 Sequoias Portola Valley residents and workers sickened with E. coli from eating spinach purchased and served […]
The Associated Press reported this morning that Chi Chi’s bankruptcy judge approved the mediation agreement which will allow claimants 45 days to submit lawsuits to nonbinding mediation, beginning in about two weeks. In the past, notices of court orders like the one signed Thursday have been run in newspapers and on radio broadcasts advising people […]
The agreement to approve a mediation system to handle major legal claims against Chi Chi’s was going to be presented on Tuesday, but was delayed because one of the attorneys couldn’t sign off on it until Wednesday. The agreement will create a 45-day window during which those who got sick could submit their pending lawsuits […]
As Joe Mandak of the Associated Press reported today, Chi Chi’s hepatitis claims may go to mediation. As the AP reported, I have been working for two months to come up with a solution for people who want to get their claims settled. My firm represents 67 people who intend to sue Chi-Chi’s. The bankruptcy […]
I left Pullman in the spring of 1982 with bachelor’s degrees in English, economics and political science with the goal of never looking back. But, similar to many students who have made that vow, I did come back – more often than ever since 1997 when Gov. Gary Locke appointed me to the WSU Board […]
Richard Roesler of the Spokesman Review reported today in his story Education plan faces uncertain fate, that the League of Education Voters has proposed a one-penny sales tax hike which would raise $1 billion a year for schools. As the Spokesman Review reported today: Washington State University Regent Bill Marler said he was surprised that […]
A few months ago, the nation’s worst outbreak of hepatitis A killed three people and sickened 660 others in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. More than 9,000 frightened people flocked to hospitals for tests and inoculations. Now that Chi-Chi’s has reopened its doors, loyal customers are happily returning. But as the “Hepatitis Claims?” billboard on Route 60 […]
As the president of WSU’s Board of Regents, I’m seeing first hand the damage being done by the current college funding crisis. As school budgets are cut, qualified students are turned away. As Jake Ellison of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported today in his article College crisis puts potential students at risk, colleges in this state […]