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Visibility Rankings  | | #68 out of 2,422 lawyers in Honolulu, Hawaii | | #20,082 out of 893,079 total lawyers Overall |
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| Practice Areas | Asbestos Litigation; Personal Injury; Antitrust | | | Peer Review Rating | BV
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What's this? | | | Education | Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, J.D., 1979, University of California at Berkeley, B.A., with distinction, 1976 | | | Admitted | 1979, California; 1980, U.S. District Court, Central District of California; 1981, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit; 1982, Hawaii and U.S. District Court, District of Hawaii | |
| Memberships | Hawaii State Bar Association; The American Association for Justice. | | | Born | Tucson, Arizona, December 25, 1953 | | | Biography | Associate Editor, California Law Review, 1977-1979. Co-Author: Chapter, "Settlement Strategy and Tactics," Asbestos Health Effects, Treatment and Control, Volume 11 of Sourcebook on Asbestos Disease, 1995; "The Legal Aspects of the Latex Protein Allergy Epidemic," Hawaii Medical Journal, Vol. 58, No. 6, June 1999. | | | Reported Cases | In re Hawaii Federal Asbestos Cases; Kaiu, Sawyer, et al., 980 F.2d 806 (9th Cir. 1992) (striking the military contract defense as a matter of federal law in asbestos litigation); Nobriga v. Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc., 67 Haw. 157, 683 P.2d 389 (1984) (striking the military specification defense as a matter of state law); Johnson v. Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc., 69 Haw. 287, 740 P.2d 548 (1987) (striking all elements of scienter in strict products liability under Hawaii law for consumer expectations); Carvalho v. Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc., 794 F.2d 454 (9th Cir. 1986) (adopting a three-pronged discovery rule for statute of limitations and placing burden of proof on defendant); Johnson v. Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc., 829 F.2d 907 (9th Cir. 1987) (striking all elements of scienter in strict products liability, including failure-to-warn defect claims); Hao v. Owens-Illinois, Inc., 69 Haw. 231, 738 P.2d 416 (1987) (adopting pure comparative fault in strict products liability cases); In re Hawaii Federal Asbestos Cases: Chang, Chun, 847 F.2d 523 (9th Cir. 1988); In re Hawaii Federal Asbestos Cases: Carvalho, 871 F.2d 891 (9th Cir. 1989) (holding lack of knowledge of violation of duty prevents statute of limitations from accruing); Wright v. State Farm Mutual Auto Ins. Co., 86 Haw. 357, 949 P.2d 197 (Haw.App. 1997); Anzai v. Chevron Corp., 168 F.Supp 2d 1180 (D. Haw. 2001). | | | ISLN | 907899974 | |
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