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• "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,...

• 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...

• 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,...

• 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...

• New Mexico Enacts Clean Fuel Standard

  In a vote that stretched into the evening, New Mexico’s legislature passed House Bill 41 by a 26-15 vote on February 13. The bill, which establishes a statewide program known as the “Clean Transportation Fuel Standards,” makes New Mexico the fourth U.S. state to enact a clean fuel standard (i.e., a marked-based set of policies...

• Mexico often linked to U.S. travel-associated outbreaks

  Researchers have analyzed travel-associated infections in people returning to the United States from abroad. From 2017 to 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention investigated 41 multistate outbreaks of non-typhoidal Salmonella and Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) linked to international travel. In the same time frame, CDC handled 470 domestic possible and confirmed multiple state outbreaks caused by Salmonella,...

• Faces of Food Safety: Meet Ciarra Toomey

  FSIS’ International Liaison Director in Mexico City, Mexico, Ciarra Toomey, began her USDA career in 2008 as a trial attorney with the Office of the General Counsel’s (OGC) Trade Practices Division, now the Marketing, Regulatory and Food Safety Programs Division. In her role with OGC, Toomey represented and provided legal counsel to USDA agencies, including...

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• DOJ Antitrust Highlights

  On May 27, Cal Dive International, Inc. (“Cal Dive”) announced that it received a second request from the DOJ in connection with its pending acquisition of the Inspection, Maintenance and Repair (“IMR”) and Conventional assets, that form part of the North America and Mexico (“NAMEX”) business of...

• Mexico Increases its Focus on Transfer Pricing Through Tax Audits and Financial Statement Review

  After the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development criticized Mexico for an inadequate number of transfer pricing audits, Mexico agreed to correct the problem.  In 2004, Mexico’s Finance Ministry split the Central Administration for International Fiscal Audits (“CAIFA”) into two...

• Paramilitary Police Need Hurts Recruiting

  Jack Love at New Mexico Law and Society questions the recruiting requirements for Police in his neck of the woods. Apparently Albuquerque is experiencing a severe shortage of police officers at the moment. First, the idea of paramilitary police should be examined. Some police ought to be...

• E. coli contaminated meat in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.

  According to Los Angeles AP, for the third time in a week, a meat supplier has expanded a ground beef recall to include about 5.7 million pounds of fresh and frozen meat because they may be contaminated with E. coli.  David Goldman, acting administrator of the USDA Food Safety and Inspection...

• More concerns raised about Mexican trucks on US highways

  We are seeing more concerns raised about safety of Mexican trucks coming into the US. Among the points raised recently are: •  Full access has not been granted to the Mexican license record database.  Border facilities have this access, but more than 15% of the time the records are missing entirely....

• Broadcast Station Reminder: Biennial Ownership Reports due June 1 for Select States

  Affected Stations:   Radio Stations in Michigan and Ohio Television Stations in Arizona, Idaho, Maryland, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming, as well as the District of Columbia Just a reminder that by June 1, 2008, radio stations in Michigan and Ohio, and television...

• CDC’s Tauxe Says Salmonella Saintpaul Outbreak Investigation Now Looking Beyond Tomatoes

  The fact the number of confirmed cases of Salmonella Saintpaul continued to rise on Monday was not the big worry for the Centers for Disease Conrol and Prevention (CDC). It was the fact that the date that people continued to fall ill continues to move forward, now the latest onset date for the...

• Nation’s Largest Low-Level Radioactive Waste Site to Be Built in West Texas

  Washington Energy Report January 23, 2009 On January 14, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (“TCEQ”) approved an order granting Waste Control Specialists, LLC (“WCS”) licenses to operate a new low-level radioactive waste (“LLRW”) disposal facility in West Texas. The Commissioners voted 2-...

• Texas Employers Prepare Now for Swine Flu Pandemic

  With our close proximity to Mexico and the outbreak of reported swine flu infections in that country, Texas employers have a greater need to prepare their workforces for a swine flu pandemic.  There are now reported cases of swine flu in Fort Worth, Richardson, and Guadalupe County (near San...

• Interior Department Expedites Solar Energy Development in the West

      The U.S. Interior Department has instigated initiatives to accelerate the development of solar energy on Western lands. About 670,000 acres currently administered by the Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah will be evaluated for the dev...