Released on = July 3, 2007, 10:58 am

Press Release Author = Lala C. Ballatan

Industry = Law

Press Release Summary = The State Supreme Court for Missouri ruled last Tuesday that
the families that filed charges against McDonald's for their children's E. coli
infections after eating hamburgers from said restaurant should sue only in the
counties where the incidents happened. According to the judge, the families must not
file their charges in the bigger city where there are also existing franchises of
McDonald's. This court decision favors McDonald's Corporation whose attorneys sought
that the lawsuits be transferred.

Press Release Body =

The State Supreme Court for Missouri ruled last Tuesday that the families that filed
charges against McDonald's for their children's E. coli infections after eating
hamburgers from said restaurant should sue only in the counties where the incidents
happened. According to the judge, the families must not file their charges in the
bigger city where there are also existing franchises of McDonald's. This court
decision favors McDonald's Corporation whose attorneys sought that the lawsuits be
transferred.

Los Angeles, California, June 28, 2007 - The lawsuits were filed by the families in
Jackson County. These were sought to be transferred by McDonald's in Branson and
Marsh, the rural counties in Southern Missouri, the location of the McDonald is
where the two children who allegedly suffered infections ate hamburgers.

The two lawsuits were filed separately but both contend that the victims fell sick
last July 2001 and had spent three weeks of confined treatment and care at the
Children's Mercy in Kansas City They also underwent several days of kidney dialysis.
According to the lawsuits, McDonald's and its franchise joints have been negligent
in training their employees how to prepare the foods to be served to the patrons,
properly.

One of the victim is Meagan Bell, was turning three years old during the time she
was infected by the allegedly infected hamburger at a McDonald's franchise branch in
Marshfield. The other one is Samantha Ryan who was then eight years old when she ate
the hamburger at the McDonald's Branson franchise branch.

According to their attorney, Kathleen Hagen from Kansas City, both the children
suffered permanent kidney damage because of the tainted hamburgers.

The Court decision was according to a state law in Missouri effective last August
2005 requiring lawsuits seeking for damages for alleged wrongdoings be filed on the
located where the victims have been injured.

The attorney representing the children's case filed the lawsuits at a looser
location law that was in place during the time of the filing, which was before
August 2005.





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