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Civil Litigation

Oct. 2, 2019

Judge tries patience and humor with unruly billionaire witness

Testimony Tuesday from Alki David made one thing abundantly clear: The California court system isn't well equipped to deal with a billionaire non-citizen who doesn't want to cooperate.

Testimony Tuesday from Alki David made one thing abundantly clear: The California court system isn't well equipped to deal with a billionaire non-citizen who doesn't want to cooperate.

Argumentative from nearly the moment he took the witness stand to testify an sexual harassment claims brought against him by his former employee Lauren Reeves, David answered a significant number of plaintiff's attorney Nathan Goldberg's questions wit...

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