Personal Injury Law

Marler Blog Makes No. 2 in Torts in ABA Best of Blawgs

By Bill Marler, Esq.

Being picked by the ABA and voters as number two is really not that bad.  Especially given the fact that I appear to have pissed off the ABA Food Supplements Subcommittee and Products Liability Committee of the Section of Litigation.  See, several months ago I was asked by one of the organizers to speak at their Food & Supplements First Annual Regional CLE Workshop on February 17, 2011 in Atlanta and then "dis-invited."  The event is to be held at The Coca-Cola Company, 1 Coca Cola Plaza, Atlanta, GA 30313.  Apparently, someone felt that because I had sued a product line of Coca-Cola - Odwalla Juice - responsible for sickening 65 (several with acute kidney failure, HUS) and killing one child - that I would be better to have someone else speak instead.

I guess they did not want me to talk about the fact that Odwalla tried to sell juice (months before the 1996 E. coli Outbreak) to the U.S. Army (not as a biological weapon) and were told that their product was not fit for the military.  However, Odwalla kept selling the unpasteurized juice to pregnant women and children.  Go figure.

Full post as published by Marler Blog on January 04, 2011 (boomark / email).