Bill Marler
speaker
134 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 29 May
Bill Marler’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Criminal · Poisoned · 1 May 2026
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And a truck rolled up to my office and dumped off literally several hundred boxes of paper.
I think they felt that I never would go through them.
And so we started going, you know, myself, my staff, the other lawyers started going through all the documents and we started to see things like, you know, we knew that the state of Washington had increased cook times, but we didn't know for sure whether or not that information had gotten a jack in the box.
Jack in the Box chose to continue to cook their hamburgers at the lower level because increasing the temperature would require increasing the amount of time the hamburger cooked from two minutes to two minutes and 15 seconds.
And that would have made their hamburgers less a fast food.
And so they made the decision to essentially ignore
the Washington state regulation and stick with the nationwide regulation.
And we got to a point where they had offered $14 million, and that's in 1995, and that's, frankly, real money back then.
And I rejected it.
And I remember the mediator looking at me like, Mr. Marler, Bill, can I talk to you for a moment?
And so he was a 65-year-old former federal judge looking at me like, what are you doing, you idiot?
And, you know, it was pretty frightening.
So I went back to the room where the Kiner's were and, you know, talked to them about that.
And I just told them they needed to trust me, that I was confident that they would come up with more money.
And I went to where they were still in their conference room.
I knocked on the door.
And I just, and like, who is it?
I said, Bill, like, what the hell do you want?
And I said, hey, there's this bar in the hotel called Torchy's.
I said, I'll meet you at Torchy's.
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