The Law Blog is gearing up big-time for Monday. That’s when lawyers will square off before the High Court to argue Wyeth v. Levine, a preemption case with major implications for the business community. (Here’s recent LB coverage, and here are all the docs, via Scotus Wiki.)

You can call Bill Marler a lot of things, but this much is true: When it comes to foodborne illness litigation, the man knows his business.
Last month, when we spoke to Marler about litigation prospects for the salmonella saintpaul outbreak, which has now sickened nearly 1,300 people, he said that, on the tomato front, there [...]

Credit: Bill Marler. With the number of salmonella-sickened people topping 1,000 last week, we thought we’d check in with LB veteran Bill Marler, the food-borne illness lawyer from Seattle’s Marler Clark. Marler handled a spate of 2006 cases relating to E.coli outbreaks. (Click here for a 2006 WSJ profile of Marler Clark.) Not surprisingly, even [...]

In Major League Baseball, there’s a lot of good to talk about at the All-Star Break this year: the surprising Rays, the Cubs in first place, not to mention the ridiculous performance put on by the Rangers’ Josh Hamilton at last night’s Home Run Derby — one of the more impressive athletic feats this blogger [...]

From sugar to oil: In 2005, a lethal explosion at BP’s Texas City refinery occurred after a piece of equipment called a blowdown drum overfilled with flammable liquid hydrocarbons. The excess liquid and vapor hydrocarbons then were vented from the drum and ignited at the startup of the isomerization unit — a device that boosts [...]

NYC’s lawsuit against gun retailers in the south has been billed as a David v. Goliath match between Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Jay Wallace, the owner of a sporting goods store in Georgia. According to the NYT’s coverage of the upcoming federal trial — to be heard by the oft-overturned district court judge, Jack Weinstein [...]

The risk of blood clots in the legs and lungs may be higher for women using the birth-control patch instead of the pill, according to a warning on the product's label disclosed Wednesday.