OP-ED: Case of the last supper flings open pandora box of liability issues - (Newstex)
November 1, 2007 – 8:03 pmWhat could be called The Case of the Last Supper - which it was for one church lady - has thrown open a Pandora Box of liability issues.
Heated discussion about this is reaching from THE WALL STREET JOURNAL to CBN News. And the plaintiff firm in the middle of it Marler Clark expects the controversy to accelerate to the point that one party - Nebraska Beef - backs off from its third-party lawsuit of Salem Lutheran Church in tiny Longville, Minnesota. I predict just that: Nebraska Beef ditching the suit because of the backlash of public and legal opinion.
Here’s the background, briefed up:
The volunteer cooks at Salem Lutheran prepared a spaghetti-and-meatball potluck dinner. Turns out that the meat the Church purchased for this dinner had been contaminated with the deadly E-Coli O157:H7 bacteria. So lethal can contact with this strain of E-Coli be that during the Clinton Administration it was […]
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