Briefing Notes
• A food-poisoning claim that allegedly led to a rare mesenteric artery injury has been removed to federal court, setting up a science-heavy causation fight.
• CT reportedly showed a small SMAD two days after ER intake, followed by vascular surgery about six weeks later.
• Next concrete milepost: EDNC scheduling order and expert disclosure deadlines, which will frame the ensuing Daubert motions.
By SAMUEL LOPEZ
USA HERALD — August 24, 2025
A Virginia patron says a routine takeout order from a Raleigh Panda Express set off anything but a routine evening, alleging a rapid bout of food poisoning that escalated into a small superior mesenteric artery dissection—a rare vascular injury most people will thankfully never hear about outside a medical journal.
In a complaint first filed June 13 in Wake County Superior Court and now removed to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, plaintiff Charles Garrett alleges he ate chicken with noodles and mushrooms on June 16, 2022, and began vomiting within about forty minutes. By the next day, according to the filing, his symptoms had intensified—nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea—prompting a trip to Duke Raleigh Hospital’s emergency room.
