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More news today on the peanut recall front, from the Washington Post, in a rather stunning announcement:

Every Peanut Product From Ga. Plant Recalled: FDA: Toss Out Anything Made in 2007-08
By Lyndsey Layton, Washington Post Staff Writer, Thursday, January 29, 2009; Page A01

Excerpt: “In one of the largest food recalls in history, the Food and Drug Administration asked retailers, manufacturers and consumers yesterday to throw out every product made in the past two years from peanuts processed by a Georgia plant at the heart of a deadly nationwide outbreak of salmonella illness….
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The action came after federal officials discovered this month that the company, Peanut Corporation of America, knowingly shipped products contaminated with salmonella 12 times in 2007 and 2008, prompting a congresswoman to call yesterday for a criminal investigation by the Justice Department.

Michael Rogers of the FDA said the company violated good manufacturing practices by selling peanut products that had tested positive for salmonella bacteria in inspections commissioned by the firm. He said it turned over records of its inspections only after the FDA invoked special authority given to it by Congress in 2002 under laws to prevent bioterrorism….” (source)

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The stories (e.g. here and here) we’ve been reading recently about the surgical checklist from the World Health Organization (their Safe Surgery Saves Lives Challenge) have some of us wondering why all surgical teams aren’t required to use them.

Even under the extreme emergency of “birds in engines,” the pilots of that plane that landed in the Hudson pulled out their own checklist.

It also has us wondering if we can’t just take the Checklist into the operating room with us and insist that the hospital staff use it and sign off on it (a big X marking the place where the knife is supposed to be inserted wouldn’t hurt either, so to speak).

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On this deeply moving and historic day …

We will be fairly low-tech in my Law Library on Inauguration Day, January 20, 2009, with the TV tuned in. Laptop users can connect through our wireless service:

Inaugural information and schedules of events:

1) Presidential Inaugural Committee site

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One doesn’t think of Clackamas County, Oregon as being on the cutting edge, but sometimes ….

1) Four-day work week: A lot of the country is watching how Clackamas County’s one-year experiment with a four-day work week fares. For some (e.g. commuters), it’s a winner, but not for all:

Clackamas County government’s four-day workweek draws protests, by Peter Zuckerman, The Oregonian, Thursday December 25, 2008:

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An interesting (but not earth shattering) case from Australia: the court (Master Harper) allowed a mortgage lender to serve the homeowners – at their Facebook page.

Find stories on the web, using these search words (or others of your choosing): australia court service mortgage facebook Canberra

Make sure you read at least a few stories out of Australia, not just the U.S. papers reporting the story. E.g.:

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My previous post, Ayyoub, Clackamas County (Oregon) Blogging Case, and SCRIBD, did not identify the documents that I uploaded to SCRIBD about this case. They are:

1) Judge Redman, Clackamas County Circuit Court Judge, Pro Tem September 30, 2008, decision
2) Order Denying Plaintiff’s Motion to Compel
3) Plaintiff’s Motion to Compel Production of Documents from Webhosts
4) Third-party The Portland Mercury’s Opposition to Plaintiff’s Motion to Compel
5) Plaintiff’s Motion to Compel
6) Civil Subpoena Duces Tecum

Re: 2007 ORS 44.510 et seq.

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