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Jan. 29, 2009

Working on the Railroad

A man's case hinged on whether he was on the job when injured in a truck accident while en route to a motel. Jurors decided he was.

On the morning of last Oct. 31, Sacramento attorney Donald S. Britt peered outside the window of his hotel room in Ontario and saw a double rainbow streaking across the sky.

"That rainbow was a confirmation of what I already knew. I knew Eric would win," Britt said, about his client Eric Doi, a Union Pacific Railroad Co. worker who was paralyzed in 2007 as the result of an auto accident.

Later that day, a Los Angeles County Superior Court jury awarded Britt's c...

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