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A Fresno meat packer is pulled tainted hamburger off the shelves again, while a young woman who became severely ill from eating hamburger files a suit against corporate parent Cargill.

Philip Mattera, one of our favorite bloggers, does Forbes magazine one better, coming up with his list of corporate malefactors and miscreants.

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo nabs Elliott Broidy, a California heavyweight in the world of Republican politics.

Plaintiffs’ lawyer Matthew Righett told the Daily Journal he’d never seen a defendant mistakenly overlook 140 people. “It just seemed like an incredibly presumptuous overreaching to suggest that people should just be folded in on the backs of the people [in the existing class] and reduce the value,” he said.

“Underbanked” households make more use of nonbank money orders, nonbank check-cashing services, payday loans, rent-to-own agreements, pawn shops or refund anticipation loans.

A food safety expert says hundreds of thousands of pounds of ground beef that were sent to schools this summer under the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National School Lunch Program should have been recalled after other beef processed by the same provider was found to be contaminated with salmonella.

If you’re a Californian who doesn’t have health insurance, state law requires hospitals to give you an estimate as to how much a medical procedure will cost. It’s a law that, apparently, most hospitals don’t observe.