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• Metal Fragments in HEB Ice Cream prompts Recall

  The ice cream is being voluntarily recalled for potential metal Committed to the safety and quality of its products, H-E-B is voluntarily issuing a recall for 12-count packages of 3-ounce cups of Creamy Creations ice cream in select flavors for potential metal. The affected products were distributed to all H-E-B stores in Texas and Mexico...

• H-E-B ice cream recalled over metal in product

  H-E-B is recalling 12-count packages of 3-ounce cups of Creamy Creations ice cream in select flavors because of potential metal in the product. The affected products were distributed to all H-E-B stores in Texas and Mexico and Central Market, Joe V’s Smart Shop and Mi Tienda stores. The UPC and code dates can be found...

• California company recalls shelled walnuts linked to outbreak of E. coli infections

  Gibson Farms Inc. has recalled organic light halves and pieces of shelled walnuts because they have been linked to an outbreak of E. coli infections.  The organic walnuts were distributed in natural food stores and co-ops in the following states: Alaska, Arkansas Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon,...

• "Rust" movie armorer convicted of manslaughter in New Mexico gets maximum prison term of 18 months in state prison

  I asked in this post last month what folks thought would be the proper state sentence for the “Rust” movie armorer who was convicted of manslaughter in New Mexico.  This CBS News piece reports at length on the outcome of the actual sentencing (and the broader context of this high-profile case).  Here are excerpts: The...

• Holland America Line Delays Over 13 Hours in Notifying U.S. Coast Guard After Crew Member Goes Overboard From M/S Rotterdam

  On Saturday morning, Holland America Line (HAL)’s M/S Rotterdam arrived at Port Everglades after a six day cruise to Mexico and the Western Caribbean without one of its crew members. HAL didn’t realize that one of its ship employees disappeared during the cruise until, apparently, another crew member noticed that he had not reported to...

• California company recalls ice cream bars because tests show positive for Salmonella

  Tropicale Foods of Modesto, CA, is voluntarily recalling 5,224 units of Helados Mexico Mini Cream Variety Pack with best by date of “MO Best By 10/11/2025”, because the mango bars in the variety pack have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella.  The product was distributed at retail locations in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts,...

• Ice cream bars recalled after testing finds Salmonella

  Tropicale Foods of Modesto, CA is recalling Helados Mexico Mini Cream Variety Pack because the mango bars in the variety pack are potentially contaminated with Salmonella. Testing on the mango bars revealed that the finished product may contain Salmonella.  According to the company’s recall, the product was distributed at retail locations in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana,...

• Carnival Cruise Lines: Watch Your Kids!

  Today, I watched a TicTok video posted by Crystalmerier3 who recently went on a four day vacation cruise from Galveston, Texas to ports in Mexico with her seven-year old daughter. During the cruise, they went together to a movie on the Lido Deck to watch Spiderman when mom went for about one minute to get...

• Mango Bars recalled due to Salmonella

  Tropicale Foods of Modesto, CA is voluntarily recalling 5,224 units of Helados Mexico Mini Cream Variety Pack with best by date of “MO Best By 10/11/2025”, because the mango bars in the variety pack have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail...

• Denial of Temporary Religious Worker Visa Upheld

  In Calvary Albuquerque Inc. v. Blinken, (D NM, March 13, 2024), a New Mexico federal district court dismissed challenges to the denial of an R-1 (Temporary Religious Worker) visa for Stefen Green, a South African citizen who was to be hired as Calvary Church’s Worship Director. At issue was the fact that Green received honoraria and...

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• Immigration, Post Election ‘High Priority’

  Just days after the election, President Bush announced a major immigration initiative. The ‘high priority’ initiative would grant legal status to millions of illegal immigrants as part of a migrant worker program. Wasting no time, President Bush met with Senator McCain of Arizona while Secretary of ...

• UD student recuperating from hepatitis A

  University officials call case an isolated incident BY MICHELE BESSO / The News Journal 09/30/2005 An 18-year-old University of Delaware freshman is being treated for hepatitis A, a liver disease caused by a virus that can be spread through direct contact, university officials said Thursday. It...

• Number of confirmed E. coli cases grows: 21 states affected

  Twenty-one states have been affected by the national spinach-related E. coli outbreak. Of the 131 cases nationwide, 66 people have been hospitalized with acute E. coli O157:H7 infections, including 20 with kidney failure, and one adult in Wisconsin died. The breakdown of how many cases by state was ...

• Does the Tenth Circuit Like Securities Class Actions?

  NERA Economic Consulting’s annual study, Recent Trends in Shareholder Class Action Litigation:  Filings Plummet, Settlements Soar (Jan. 2007) (available here), includes a chart showing the rates of dismissal for securities class actions in the 11 U.S. circuit courts of appeals during 2006.  To...

• MMS’ Offshore Texas Lease Sale Successful

  MMS’s August 22, 2007 Western Gulf of Mexico lease sale offered 3,338 tracts, or approximately 18 million acres, offshore Texas.  Forty-seven companies participated, submitting 358 bids on 282 tracts.  The total of all bids received was $369,496,840.  MMS Director Randall Luthi observed that “the...

• Thai Holding of Charlotte, Inc. v. Archer Daniels Midland Co., 2007 NCBC 11 (N.C. Super. May 7, 2007)(Tennille)

  A multi-state class action was settled in New Mexico. As a result, funds were to made available to North Carolina for a cy pres distribution to “public and/or non-profit entities that use MSG and Nucleotides and/or products that use MSG or Nucleotides.” There was no specification, however, of what...

• A Second Source Says: “It Must Be Mexico”

  Bob Drobatz is president of operations for Petaluma Market in Santa Rosa, CA.  He told the Santa Rosa Press Democrat that the tomatoes he was pulling from grocery shelves came from Mexico. Mexico is one of the biggest suppliers of red round tomatoes and the country was conspicuously absent from the ...

• Recalling The Big Botulism Outbreak of 1978 in Clovis, New Mexico

  Clovis, New Mexico is usually known for Cannon Air Force Base and the Norman Petty Recording Studios.   Cannon is home of the Air Force’s Special Operations Command.  Petty’s studio recorded Buddy Holly’s first chart-topping hits.   Clovis, however, is known for something else.  Something that...

• Open Government Around the Country

  The New Mexico legislature is considering a bill that would subject the legislature to New Mexico’s open meetings law.  In Washington state, the Legislature has exempted itself from the Open Public Meetings Act and the Public Records Act.  NPR’s Austin Jenkins recently wrote an article about his...

• GOM Leasing Expanded

  Expanded oil and gas leasing in the Gulf of Mexico has been approved by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, according to this article in the NYT.  The measure would allow drilling as close as 45-miles offshore Florida, and is part of a markup of broader energy legislation....