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  • 2 truckers die in crash in Australia

    Driver fatigue and trucking safety are not just an American concern. On 3/11/05, a truck driver and his passenger died when the semi-trailer they were travelling in crashed on the New South Wales north coast in Australia. The men were killed when the vehicle crashed on the Pacific Highway near...

  • Today’s question: How do you properly cook an alligator?

    Jane Zhang of the Wall Street Journal reports that a public-health officer in Sydney, Australia, had an urgent question: A consumer found a black, shiny, 1.3-centimeter-long beetle with fine, short antennas and hairy legs in a sandwich. The plastic bag the bread came in “had no holes in it, and I...

  • Meat cleanliness is vital but clipping is not only option

    A report on the need for cleanliness in the meat production chain, from farm to plate, to control the potential scourge of E coli was published yesterday, commissioned by red-meat promotion organization Quality Meat Scotland. However, the report contains no recommendations on any part of the...

  • New Technique Quickly Diagnoses Food Poisoning Bacteria

    A Queensland University of Technology (QUT)researcher has developed a new technique that can help scientists and clinicians quickly and cheaply diagnose the bacteria which causes the most common bout of food poisoning in Australia. Erin Price, from QUT’s Faculty of Science, has developed a novel...

  • Australian Plaintiff’s Case Transferred to Defendant’s Home District

    Hope Family Vineyards Pty, Ltd., v. Hope Wine, LLC, No. 08 C 3246, Slip Op. (N.D. Ill. Jul. 11, 2008) (Lindberg, J.). Judge Lindberg granted defendant's §1404(a) motion to transfer to the Central District of California. Plaintiff was an Australian entity with its principal place of business in...

  • Implications of Aristocrat v. IGT for Software Patents

    The law governing U.S. software patents sometimes shifts like the ground here in California – a point illustrated by the recent decision of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) in Aristocrat Technologies Australia PTY Ltd. v. International Game Technology, 521  F.3d  1328,  1333 (Fed....

  • Salmonella in Austraila Linked to “Pawpaw”

    They say you learn something new everyday, and even though its not lunchtime, I am ahead of that pace today.   The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that several Salmonella illnesses in Western Australia have been linked to “pawpaw.”: West Australians have been warned to thoroughly wash pawpaw...

  • Alleged abuse by “healer” and “shaman”

    A man who called himself a healer and psychic surgeon and promised to cure breast cancer has gotten into legal trouble in Australia. Apparently this person claimed to be a shaman and that he would cure the client after she did not get relief from conventional medicine: Weighing just 44 kilograms,...

  • Extraterritoriality: Not Just a Securities Law Issue

    Oral argument in the Morrison v. National Australia Bank case, now before the U.S. Supreme Court on a petition for writ of certiorari, is scheduled to take place next week, on Monday March 29, 2010. The case presents questions about the extraterritorial application of the U.S. securities laws,...

  • Morrison Precludes F-Squared Cases, Too, Court Concludes

    The Supreme Court’s decision last month in the Morrison v. National Australia Bank precludes so-called “f-cubed” claims (claims brought by foreign plaintiffs who bought foreign stock on a foreign exchange). An unanswered question is whether Morrison also precludes “f-squared” claims – that is,...

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