Personal Injury & Torts
Feb. 3, 2015
Judge erred when he revealed a plaintiff's immigration status, appellate panel rules
The 2nd District Court of Appeal ordered a new trial for a Honduran man seeking damages for a workplace injury he claims will require a lung transplant.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
A judge who outed a plaintiff as an undocumented immigrant to jurors in a workplace injury case failed to give the man a fair trial, a state appellate panel ruled Friday, ordering a new trial.
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Anthony J. Mohr should not have told jurors that Wilfredo Velasquez entered the country illegally because it was not relevant to the toxic tort claims he was making in his ...
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