Litigation
Cal. Litig. 2020, Volume 33, Number 2
Content
- A Long and Winding Road to Undo Bad Supreme Court Law
- Stringfellow Acid Pits: the Toxic and Legal Legacy By Brian Craig
- That Family Is Wrong for You: Religious Objections Before the Supreme Court
- Intellectual Property Litigation and Other Updates in the Video Game Industry as of April 2020
- Navigating the New Settled Statement Procedures
- Recent Legislative Changes Affect Long-Standing Pre-Trial Discovery Practice
- Nuts and Bolts of Videoconference Dispute Resolution in the Time of Covid-19
- Showing Lack of Probable Cause: Plaintiff's Burden of Proof in Opposing an Anti-Slapp Motion Attacking a Malicious Prosecution Claim
- Table of Contents
- McLe Article Threats, Extortion and Legitimate Advocacy
- Navigating the New Settled Statement Procedures
- Insurance Coverage Analysis Avoids Malpractice Landmines
- Nuts and Bolts of Videoconference Dispute Resolution in the Time of Covid-19
- Masthead
- Intellectual Property Litigation and Other Updates in the Video Game Industry as of April 2020
- That Family Is Wrong for You: Religious Objections Before the Supreme Court
- Affirmative Action Quandaries the Affirmative Action Puzzle: a Living History from Reconstruction to Today (Pantheon:322 Pages) By Melvin I. Urofsky
- Stringfellow Acid Pits: the Toxic and Legal Legacy By Brian Craig
- Insurance Coverage Analysis Avoids Malpractice Landmines
- Recent Legislative Changes Affect Long-Standing Pre-Trial Discovery Practice
- A Long and Winding Road to Undo Bad Supreme Court Law
- From the Section Chair News for a New World
- Editor's Foreword Sweet Successes — On or About 31 Flavors
- Showing Lack of Probable Cause: Plaintiff's Burden of Proof in Opposing an Anti-Slapp Motion Attacking a Malicious Prosecution Claim
- McLe Article Threats, Extortion and Legitimate Advocacy
- Masthead
- Affirmative Action Quandaries the Affirmative Action Puzzle: a Living History from Reconstruction to Today (Pantheon:322 Pages) By Melvin I. Urofsky
- Table of Contents
- From Cla's Ceo a Personal Plea for Addressing the Root Causes of Racism
- From the Section Chair News for a New World
- The Puzzle of Precedent in the California Court of Appeal
- Editor's Foreword Sweet Successes — On or About 31 Flavors
- The Puzzle of Precedent in the California Court of Appeal
- From Cla's Ceo a Personal Plea for Addressing the Root Causes of Racism
Stringfellow Acid Pits: The Toxic and Legal Legacy By Brian Craig
Reviewed by Dan Lawton
Dan Lawton is a member of California Litigation’s editorial board. He is senior counsel with Klinedinst PC, where he practices litigation in the firm’s appellate and professional liability groups.
My three brothers and I grew up in Fullerton, in northern Orange County, during the 1970’s. Our parents felt no anxiety about letting us walk or ride bikes to school by ourselves. Our play in the streets and vacant lots was mostly unsupervised. During the summer, the main rule was to return home by the time the streetlights came on. Around the fields where we played Little League baseball, oil pumpjacks dotted the hills. The sign posted on the fence aside the gravel parking lot declared the park’s name: Union Oil Field. To us, it, like the rest of California, seemed a kind of paradise.
As a teenager, I read an article in the local newspaper about Fullerton residents who had moved into a new housing development north of us, off of Rosecrans Avenue. The new homeowners smelled foul odors. Mysterious liquids oozed from the ground. Some people had gotten sick.