Law Practice
Apr. 19, 2021
He broke the sound barrier; are his lawsuits breaking the courts?
Aviation and war hero Chuck Yeager’s lawsuits, many against his attorneys, live on as courts consider whether he was a vexatious litigant.
Many people remember Chuck Yeager as the first person to break the sound barrier. But after his filing of dozens of suits in recent years, many attorneys and court staff in the Sacramento region know him by another term: serial litigant.
On Thursday, the 3rd District Court of Appeal rejected one appeal from his widow, Victoria Yeager, but reversed the lower court on another, allowing her to continue that case.
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