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Bronchiolitis obliterans (“popcorn lung”) has been linked to diacetyl, used in butter flavoring. But substitutes for diacetyl may be causing problems as well.

Attorneys Raymond Paul Johnson and Cory Lee trace “sudden unintended accelerations” back three decades and detail the current problems facing Toyota.

The UC Irvine School of Law attracted national attention by offering free tuition to its inaugural class, making it the most selective law school in the country before even earning accreditation.

The Food and Drug Administration may be in the early stages of shedding its paper tiger image, after a recall that the FDA triggered against the makers of a popular line of weight-loss products sold under the Hydroxycut brand.

A 28-year-old mother of three died as a result of taking part in a radio station water-drinking contest. This is the story of the resulting wrongful death suit that has forced the radio industry to take a different attitude towards dangerous stunts.

Penelope, a 26-year-old lawyer in her first job out of law school, learned first-hand an unintended consequences of newly enacted federal legislation cracking down on credit card companies: Credit card companies are taking aim at consumers.

Food-borne illness sickens 76 million Americans, sends 300,000 people to hospitals and kills 5,000 individuals annually. Still, in the nation’s biggest farm state, most food safety bills are killed or gutted, victims of a powerful agricultural lobby and legislators who have relied on Washington to decide how best to protect food. Here’s a hard look at how the issue fared in Sacramento in 2009.