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Litigation

Jan. 20, 2011

Castaneda v. State of California

Wrongful Death, Los Angeles County Superior Court, Los Angeles


"For all the sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are those 'it might have been.'"


Attorney Conal Doyle used those words from a John Greenleaf Whittier poem to convey a daughter's loss of a future with her father, as he delivered closing arguments in a case that shined a spotlight on medical neglect of immigrant detainees held in government facilities.


Doyle filed a wrongful death claim in Los Angeles County Superior Court on ...

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