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Judges and Judiciary

Feb. 3, 2009

The Accident-Prone Tourist

A series of vacation mishaps serves as a lesson on the whimsy of fate.

2nd Appellate District, Division 6

Arthur Gilbert

Presiding Justice, 2nd District Court of Appeal, Division 6

UC Berkeley School of Law, 1963

Arthur's previous columns are available on gilbertsubmits.blogspot.com.

UNDER SUBMISSION

Observant readers of the Daily Journal have noticed that my column has not appeared in the last few months. In November 2008, my wife, Barbara, and I took an around the world odyssey to glimpse the wonders of the world. My colleague Justice Richard Mosk and his wife, Sandy, persuaded us to join them and 80 other inquisitive types who, like us, did not see the economic crises coming when they signed up. The plane was a private ...

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