Personal Injury Law

S. 510 will not pass this year. I hope Senator Reid and the other Senators will explain that to the Rivera family

By Bill Marler, Esq.

Call me and I'll give you the number in the Rehab Center.

I am heading to DC early next week to attend with clients the House Energy and Commerce hearing on the latest in food safety theatre – the Egg Hearings (my bet is DeCoster 'takes the 5th'). I also hope to be able to move forward the non-O157:H7 ball a bit more. However, I am still stunned that S. 510 will not move this session, and, given the likely results of the upcoming mid-term elections, will never see the light of day in my, or Linda's lifetime.

As you might well recall, Linda Rivera is a Nevada woman who contracted E. coli from cookie dough and has been battling for her life for the past sixteen months, had been promised the Senate will move on the pending food safety bill, S. 510--the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act. A constituent of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), Rivera and her family had also become key advocates for the bill that has languished in the Senate for months.

I guess the t-shirts I gave to each US Senator did not work:

Full post as published by Marler Blog on September 16, 2010 (boomark / email).