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Law Practice

Aug. 15, 2009

Lack of School Lifeguards Prompts Questions

Cesar Brandon Urena drowned during swim class at La Quinta High School in La Quinta in 2007, when he was 14. His parents have filed a wrongful death suit against the school, saying it should have had a lifeguard on duty.

By Catherine Ho
Daily Journal Staff Writer

As 14-year-old Cesar Brandon Urena lay motionless at the bottom of a swimming pool, surrounded by 40 of his bathing suit-clad classmates, his PE teacher assumed he was joking.

So he sent another student to dive down and pass along the message: "If he's playing around, he's going to be in a lot of trouble," according to personal injury lawyer Shirley Watkins of Michels & Watkins, in Los Angeles, who is re...

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