ca. 1989
Deposed as defense expert in a matter in California state court concerning a dispute between a petroleum company and the actions taken by the State of California, California Department of Health Services (CDHS), based on the following report on which I served as coauthor, reflecting work I performed on behalf of CDHS at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as a University of California employee, in collaboration with the University of California at Davis:
Reed NR, Olsen HE, Marty M, Beltran LM, McKone TE, Bogen KT, Tablante NL, Hsieh DPH. Health risk assessment of 1,2 dibromo 3-chloropropane (DBCP) in California drinking water. Department of Environmental Toxicology, University of California, Davis, CA, 1987.
April 14, 2000
The People of the State of California and American Environmental Safety Institute v. Philip Morris Inc., et al. Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Los Angeles (BC194217, Case No. 996781).
[Matter concerning failure to warn tobacco consumers about health risks posed to nonsmokers exposed to environmental tobacco smoke. Deposed as plaintiff’s expert environmental health scientist, working with Preston Gates & Ellis, LLP.]
March 3, 2010
The City of Fresno v. United States of America, United Army Corps of Engineers, National Guard Bureau, and the Boeing Company, Case No. 1:06-CV-01559-OWW-GSA, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California. Retaining attorney: Lisa Decker (now Senior Counsel at WPX Energy in Denver, CO, http://cle.cobar.org/About/Faculty-Authors/Info/CUSTOMERCD/17282, lisa.decker@wpxenergy.com)
[Matter concerning 1,2,3-trichloropropane contamination of groundwater in public supply wells at and around the Old Hammer Field site. Deposed as plaintiff’s expert statistician, working with Snell & Wilmer, LLP.]
October 20, 2010
Laurie M. Montanez and Jehan Hughes v. Gerber Childrenswear, LLC, Case No. CV-09-07420-JSF, U.S. District Court, Central District of California. Retaining attorney: Brad Rustin IV (brad.rustin@nelsonmullins.com , 864.373.2320, in Greenville, NC).
[Matter concerning exposures to phthalate chemicals from tagless labels on children’s playwear and sleepwear clothing. Submitted a Declaration and was Deposed as defendant’s expert toxicologist, working with Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP.]
2012
Ayala et al. v. The Carroll Independent Fuel Company et al. before the Circuit Court for Frederick County, Maryland, concerning alleged chronic human exposures primarily to the gasoline additive (fuel oxygenate) chemical methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) in groundwater, Docket # 10-C-10-0890, Circuit Court for Frederick County, MD. Retaining attorney: Dwight W. Stone II of Whiteford Taylor Preston LLP (dstone@wtplaw.com, 410.347.8750, in Baltimore, MD).
[Prepared 328-page expert toxicology report at the request of Defendant’s attorneys involved in this matter. The case settled just prior to my scheduled deposition.]