Lawyer
Boise, Id, Us
Worked with former Idaho State Supreme Court Justice Robert C.Huntley in doing plaintiffs' civil litigation in areas of product liability, wrongful death, national class action, complex multi district litigation & employment discrimination. Working with Mr. Huntley, we obtained a $1.5 million verdict in Prince v. Gordon Trucking for wrongful death. We sued Baxter Healthcare in a federal MDL case on behalf of a group of plaintiffs who had become infected with Hepatits C through Intraveous Immune Globulin. We eventually took the cases to mediation with JAMS in San Francisco serving as mediator, and obtained confidential settlement amounts on behalf of our clients. Also working with Mr. Huntley, Judy Holcombe and Gary Allen, we sued Zilog under the Americans With Disabilities Act, and obtained a confidential settlement on behalf of a group of plaintiffs on the eve of trial. That case eventually received a three page write up in USA Today. Also assisted Mr. Huntley in serving as local counsel along with a Washington D.C. based firm hired by the F.B.I. to defend Special Agent Lon Horiuchi who was the sniper on the F.B.I. Hostage Rescue Team that shot and killed Vicki Weaver at the Ruby Ridge incident in Northern Idaho. I consider our strategy for defending S.A. Horiuchi a success. He was charged with murder by a county prosecutor, but was never convicted, never spent any time in jail, and the charges were thrown out by a federal judge. That decision was eventually overturned on appeal to the Ninth Circuit, but by then the prosecutor decided to not file the charges again. Also assisted Mr. Huntley in representing a group of plaintiffs, who had become infected with HIV through blood clotting factors sold to hemophiliacs by several large pharmaceutical companies. The case was a national class action involving attorneys from all across the nation. It eventually settled for $800 million, with waiver by Congress of Medicaid reimbursement rights.
