Richard Alexander :: Publications

• Defective Tires: Personal Injuries and Wrongful Death Caused by Tire Manufacturers Cost Cutting, Alexanderinjury.com 2008
• Update on Ortho Evra Patch: FDA Changes Warning Label on Ortho-Evra in Wake of Increasing Cases of Blood Clots, Alexanderinjury.com 2008
• Maxwell's Pledge Will Not Change the Culture of Carnage: An Honest Discussion of Teenage Speeding, Deaths and Killing, Alexanderinjury.com 2008
• Brain Injury: Reporting Personal Injury Symptoms - The Critical Role of Family on the Road to Diagnosis, Treatment and Recovery, Alexanderinjury.com 2008
• Holding Drug Manufacturers Responsible for Personal Injuries: Why Pharmaceutical Makers Are Not Immune from Liability, Richard Alexander, Editor. Alexanderinjury.com 2008
• Judge Eugene Hyman an Outstanding Public Servant: Stopping the Revolving Door of Violence at Inception, Alexanderinjury.com 2008
• Deep Bone Pain, Skin Hardening and Stiffening of Joints After MRI: the Impact of Metal in MRI Contrast Solution, Alexanderinjury.com 2007
• Heart Surgery Followed by Kidney Failure, Stroke or Heart Attack: The Impact of Bayer's Trasylol®, , Alexanderinjury.com 2007
• Sleep Deprivation and a Rollover: A look at a $5 million recovery for a Quadriplegic College Student, Alexanderinjury.com 2007
• Hiding Deaths in the Factories: IBM's Efforts to Censor a Scientific Study of Cancer in the Electronics Industry, Alexanderinjury.com 2007
• Arrest Records Should Be Secret Until Judge's Review, San Jose Mercury News Op-Ed, September 24, 2007
• Insurance Company Refused To Pay $30,000 Policy: $4.5 Million Settlement During Trial for L-1 Paraplegic, Alexanderinjury.com 2007
• The Tragedy of Elder Abuse: Outrageous Misconduct by a California Resident Care Facility, Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the American College of Legal Medicine, 2005.
• Traumatically Brain Injured and the Law, Premier Outlook [brain injury periodical], Summer, 2005
• Confidential Settlements Should Be Banned in California, Legal Specialization Digest, State Bar of California, Summer, 2004.
• Aircrash Fatality and Survival Factors for Commercial Pilots, Consumer Law Page, 2001
• Airbus A-300 Defects: FAA Delay in Ordering Inspection and American Airlines Flight 587, Consumer Law Page, 2001
• U.S. Plan for Compensation for World Trade Center Deaths: Unfair to Survivors and Surviving Families, Consumer Law Page, 2001
• Airline Responsibility for the World Trade Center Deaths, Consumer Law Page, 2001
• Birth Defects Caused by Herbicides, Insecticides, and Industrial Chemicals that Disrupt the Endocrine System, Editor, Consumer Law Page, 2001
• Jury Duty in California: An Overview of Jury Trials Editor, Consumer Law Page, 2001
• Defective Sulzer Hip and Knee Replacements, Consumer Law Page, 2001
• Class Action Arbitrations in California, Consumer Law Page, 2001
• Pesticides and Lymphoma, Consumer Law Page, 2001
• Environmental Exposure to Toxic Chemicals Cause Cancer: Research Report, Consumer Law Page, Consumer Law Page, 2000
• Les Ethers de Glycol: les risques et les enjeux pour la Sante, Consumer Law Page, Consumer Law Page, 2000
• Discrimination In Burial Insurance Policies, Consumer Law Page, Consumer Law Page, 2000
• High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Constitutional and Historic Limits on Impeachment for Criminal Attacks upon State, Consumer Law Page, Consumer Law Page, 2000
• California Workers' Compensation Attorneys for On-The-Job Injuries, Consumer Law Page, 2000
• Child Molestation: School's Failure to Supervise a Volunteer Senior Citizen - A Case Study, Consumer Law Page, 2000
• Paxil Reaction: Wrongful Death of Wife Caused by the Failure to Treat Husband's Manic Psychotic State Aggravated by Paxil - Case Report, Consumer Law Page, 2000
• Early Diagnosis of Industrially Induced Cancers and Birth Defects: Employees' Rights and Employers' Duties to Warn Before Hiring, During Employment and After Employment Ends, Consumer Law Page, 2000
• Personal Injury and Wrongful Death: An Outline of Common Claims under California Law, Consumer Law Page, 2000
• Personal Injury Law in California: Advice from an Experienced Trial Lawyer, Consumer Law Page, 2000
• California's One Year Statute of Limitations: Extended until Suspicion of Injury, Consumer Law Page, 2000
• Personal Injury: How Long Will a Lawsuit Take?, Consumer Law Page, 2000
• A Winning Strategy in Defective Products Cases, Consumer Law Page, 2000
• Chemically Induced Diseases: Synergistic Effects and Cumulative Injuries caused by Toxic Chemicals, Consumer Law Page, 2000
• Rollovers: Death, Brain Damage and Quadriplegia - The Failure and the Fault of Roof "Standards" Consumer Law Page, 2000
• Defective Firestone and Bridgestone Tires on Ford Explorers and other SUVs, Consumer Law Page, 2000
• Personal Injury: Do I Have To Go To Court? Can I Settle Out of Court?, Consumer Law Page, 2000
• Rollovers: Death, Brain Damage and Quadriplegia - The Failure and the Fault of Roof "Standards", Consumer Law Page, 2000
• California Workers' Compensation Attorneys for On-The-Job Injuries, Consumer Law Page, 2000
• Cancer in the Electronics Industry, Consumer Law Page, 2000
• Environmental Pollution and Property Damage: Overcoming the Permanent Nuisance Three Year Statute of Limitations - Anatomy of a $2,000,000 Property Damage Settlement, Part I, Consumer Law Page, 1999
• Environmental Pollution: Overcoming the Defenses of Consent and Custom and Practice - Anatomy of a $2,000,000 Property Damage Settlement, Part II, Consumer Law Page, 1999
• Calculating Property Damage in Pollution and Environmental Cases - Anatomy of a $2,000,000 Property Damage Settlement, Part III, Consumer Law Page, 1999
• Air Bag Safety: Sit Back, Buckle Up, Children in the Backseat, Consumer Law Page, 1999
• Gas Tank Fires: The $4.9 Billion Verdict Against General Motors for the Explosion of a 1979 Chevrolet Malibu, Consumer Law Page, 1999
• Consumer Fraud: Spotting and Protecting Yourself Against It [A General Primer], Consumer Law Page, 1999
• Class Actions Protect Investors and Consumers from Abuse: An Overview of the Requirements for Prosecuting and Certifying a Class Action, Consumer Law Page, 1999
• Fen-Phen California Warning: Silent Injury - Secret Disease made worse by California's One Year Statute of Limitations that Starts Running When Injury is First Suspected, Consumer Law Page, 1998
• Confidential Settlements Should Be Banned in California, Consumer Law Page, 1998
• Sports Utility Vehicles: Dangerous Propensities In An Emergency - 4x4 Rollovers, Consumer Law Page, 1998
• Handgun Use Banned for Misdemeanor Domestic Violence Conviction, Consumer Law Page, 1998
• Contaminated L-Tryptophan and 5-Hydroxy-L-Tryptophan, Eosinophilia Myalgia Syndrome [EMS], the 1989 Epidemic and the 1998 Warning, Consumer Law Page, 1998
• IBM: Cancer and Birth Defects at San Jose, Fishkill and Essex Junction, Consumer Law Page, 1998
• Class Actions Protect Investors and Consumers from Abuse: An Overview of the Requirements for Prosecuting and Certifying a Class Action, Consumer Law Page, 1998
• Chemically Induced Diseases: Synergistic Effects and Cumulative Injuries caused by Toxic Chemicals -- Understanding the Gulf War Syndrome and Multiple Chemical Sensitivity [MCS], Consumer Law Page, 1998
• Gas Tank Fires: The Historical Case Against the Placement of Gas Tanks Outside the Frame Rails on the 1973-87 General Motors C & K Model Pickup Trucks, Consumer Law Page, 1997
• Defective Thyroid Medication: levothyroxine sodium, Editor, Consumer Law Page, 1997
• Gas Tank Safety in 1973-87 GM Pickup Trucks: A Proposed Solution to the Hazard of Saddlebag Gas Tanks Using Polyethylene Liners Inside Metal Tanks Proven Feasible Since 1978 in Chevrolet Corvettes, Consumer Law Page, 1997
• GM: December 1996 Letter to GM Pickup Truck Owners with Side Saddle Tanks: Settlement Denied by a Handful of Objectors, Consumer Law Page, 1997
• Stop Corporate Rip Offs - Blow the Whistle on Crime, Consumer Law Page, 1997
• Collectable Damages in Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Cases, Consumer Law Page, 1997
• After the Accident: What To Do Immediately, Consumer Law Page, 1997
• Toxic Carcinogens in the Construction Industry, Consumer Law Page, 1997
• Personal Injury Negligence Law in California, Consumer Law Page, 1997
• Leukemia, Solvents and Glues: Proving the Connection, a Case Study, with Hawes, Consumer Law Page, 1997
• Toxic Exposures in the Construction Industry, Consumer Law Page, 1997
• The Traumatically Brain Injured and the Law, 19 The Advocate [Journal of Criminal Justice Education & Research], 23-28, (March, 1997)
• Litigating Chemically Induced Cancer Cases Years Later, 8 Our Toxic Times 1, Chemical Injury Network (January 1997)
• What is the Law of Negligence in California?, Consumer Law Page, 1997
• What damages can be collected in a personal injury or wrongful death case under California law?, Consumer Law Page, 1997
• Accident Law: Questions and Answers for people who have suffered an Injury, Consumer Law Page, 1997
• Gas Tank Fires: The Historical Case Against the Placement of Gas Tanks Outside the Frame Rails on the 1973-87 General Motors C & K Model Pickup Trucks, Consumer Law Page, 1997
• Toxic Exposures in the Construction Industry, Consumer Law Page, 1997
• Consumers' Rights: Cremations and Funerals, Consumer Law Page, 1997
• How to Fix GM Pickups: A Public Letter to the Attorneys Objecting to the Settlement of the GM Pickup Gas Tank Litigation, Consumer Law Page, 1997
• Before You Hire a Personal Injury Lawyer, Consumer Law Page, 1997
• Over-the-Counter Herbicides Pose a Significant Threat of Soft-Tissue Sarcoma, Leukemia and Lymphoma, Consumer Law Page, 1996
• Dioxin Proven to Cause Cancer and Heart Disease, Consumer Law Page, 1996
• Consumer Advocacy Demands National Coordination: A Call to the American Council on Consumer Interests, Consumer Law Page, 1996
• Consumers' Rights: Cremations and Funerals, Consumer Law Page, 1996
• Adoption Fraud in California, Consumer Law Page, 1996
• Asthmatic Children with Seizures: Theophylline May Be the Cause, Consumer Law Page, 1996
• Contact Lenses: Settlement of Bausch & Lomb Lens Wearer Class Action, Consumer Law Page, 1996
• Explosive Devices, Public Schools, and Lenient School Administrators: The June 8, 1994 Smoke Bomb Prank at Palo Alto's Gunn High School that Injured Eighteen, Consumer Law Page, 1996
• Gouging Patients Taking Thyroid Hormone Synthroid [Levothyroxine Sodium] by Knoll Pharmaceuticals, Consumer Law Page, 1996
• Survivors of Sexual Assault: A General Information Guide for Women, Their Families and Counselors, Consumer Law Page, 1996
• The Development of Consumer Rights in the United States Slowed by the Power of Corporate Political Contributions and Lobbying, Consumer Law Page, 1996
• Understanding the Americans with Disabilities Act, Consumer Law Page, 1996
• Wrongful Adoption: Fraud by Adoption Agencies, Consumer Law Page, 1996
• The History of No-Fault: Voters Say "No" to So-Called "Reforms" 13 Out of 13 Times, Consumer Law Page, 1996
• Dioxin in Pentachlorophenol: A Case Study of Cancer Deaths in the Lumber Industry, Consumer Law Page, 1996
• Dioxin Proven to Cause Cancer and Heart Disease, Consumer Law Page, 1996
• Fetal Brain Damage, Developmental Delays and Intellectual Impairment as a Result of Exposure to Polychlorinated Biphenyl [PCB] in Pregnancy, Consumer Law Page, 1996
• Protective Helmets Prevent Traumatic Brain Injury: Horseback-Riding Injuries Prove the Case, Consumer Law Page, 1996
• Asthmatic Children with Seizures: Theophylline May Be the Cause, Consumer Law Page, 1996
• Over-the-Counter Herbicides Pose a Significant Threat of Soft-Tissue Sarcoma, Leukemia and Lymphoma, Consumer Law Page, 1996
• In Utero Workplace Injuries: Children Harmed By Solvents During Pregnancy, Consumer Law Page,1996
• Failure to Warn of Product Hazards in California, Consumer Law Page,1996
• Consumer Fraud: Spotting and Protecting Yourself Against It [A General Primer], Consumer Law Page,1996
• A Special Message to Lawyers Visiting This Site: A Rising Tide Raises All Ships - Join Me on the Web, Consumer Law Page,1996
• The Development of Consumer Rights in the United States Slowed by the Power of Corporate Political Contributions and Lobbying, , Consumer Law Page,1996
• Consumer Advocacy Demands National Coordination: A Call to the American Council on Consumer Interests, Consumer Law Page,1996
• Protective Helmets Prevent Traumatic Brain Injury: Horseback-Riding Injuries Prove the Case, Consumer Law Page, 1996
• Dioxin Proven to Cause Cancer and Heart Disease, Consumer Law Page, 1996
• Explosive Devices, Public Schools, and Lenient School Administrators: The June 8, 1994 Smoke Bomb Prank at Palo Alto's Gunn High School that Injured Eighteen, Consumer Law Page, 1996
• Designer Poisons: How to Protect Your Health and Home from Toxic Pesticides,, Consumer Law Page, 1996
• Cutting Edge Litigation: Computer Simulation and Animation in The Courtroom -- The New Wave, Consumer Law Page, 1996
• Consumers' Rights: A Primer for Delivering Legal Services, CAOC Tahoe Convention Handbook, April 1996
• In Utero Workplace Injuries: Children Harmed By Solvents During Pregnancy, Consumer Law Page, 1995
• In Utero Brain Damage Caused by Toxic Solvent Exposure: Methyl Ethyl Ketone, Fetal Neurotoxicity, Microcephaly and Mental Retardation, Consumer Law Page, 1995
• Representing Victims of Crime: A Perspective on the Disaster of American Public Policy and Proposals for Change, Consumer Law Page, 1995
• Avoiding Fraud When Buying Long-Term Care Insurance: A Guide For Consumers And Their Families, Editor, Consumer Law Page, 1995
• When an Insurance Company Breaches Its Contract: A Brief Summary of the General Law in the United States, Consumer Law Page, 1995
• Understanding the Legal Fee Agreement: Consumers' Rights in the Legal Marketplace, Consumer Law Page, 1995
• Hidden Safety Hazards: (And How to Protect Yourself Against Them), Consumer Law Page, 1995
• How to Hire the "Right Lawyer": Consumers' Rights in the Legal Marketplace, Consumer Law Page, 1995
• How to Resolve Your Consumer Complaint, Consumer Law Page, 1995
• Passive Seatbelt Systems and the 65 MPH Speed Limit: A Cause for Concern, Consumer Law Page, 1995
• Methyl Ethyl Ketone, Fetal Neurotoxicity, Microcephaly and Mental Retardation: In Utero Brain Damage Caused by Toxic Solvent Exposure, with Amanda Hawes, Consumer Law Page, 1995
• Hepatitis C from Gammagard ® , an Intravenous Immunoglobulin [IGIV], Consumer Law Page, 1995
• Passive Seatbelt Systems and the 65 MPH Speed Limit: A Cause for Concern, Consumer Law Page, 1995
• Radon - A National Environmental Health Problem, Consumer Law Page, 1995
• Breast Implants: Fact v. Fiction in the Harvard and Mayo Clinic Studies, Consumer Law Page 1995.
• Proving Toxic Torts: A Primer on Pharmacokinetics, Consumer Law Page, 1994
• Top 10 Hazardous Household Chemicals, Consumer Law Page, 1994
• All Terrain Vehicles: Deaths and Injuries to Children, Consumer Law Page, 1994
• Update on Breast Implants: The New Evidence Against Dow Chemical, Consumer Law Page, 1994
• The Traumatically Brain Injured and the Law, Consumer Law Page, 1994
• Traumatic Brain Injury - Proving a Lifetime Disability, CTLA San Francisco Convention Hand book (November,1994)
• Cutting Edge Litigation: Computer Simulation and Animation in The Courtroom - The New Wave, CTLA San Francisco Convention Handbook (November 1993)
• Fraud by Adoption Agencies, 23 CTLA Forum 27 (March 1993)
• A New and Developing Tort: Adoption Fraud, CTLA Tahoe Convention Handbook (March 1993)
• Preparing the Defective Product Case, 47 The California Legal Secretary 34 (February 1993).
• Product Liability: Preventing Deaths From Tire Explosions Caused by Known Design Defects, 22 CTLA Forum 17 (September 1992)
• Proving Chemically Induced Asthma Symptoms: Reactive Airways Dysfunction Syndrome, A New Medical Development, 22 CTLA Forum 31 (July/August 1992)
• The Cancer War Needs An Informed Public: Known Carcinogens to be Avoided, 22 CTLA Forum 13 ( May 1992)
• A Protocol For Increasing Client Communication and Successful Case Outcomes: Replicating the Medical Model of Service Delivery in a Remedial Practice, 21 CTLA Forum 357 (1991)
• Being Media-Savvy in the 90's, 21 CTLA Forum 226 (1991)
• A Developing Toxic Tort: Lumber Mills, Log Cabins, Leukemia, Lymphomas and Soft Tissue Sarcomas - The Case Against Pentachlorophenol, 21 CTLA Forum 195 (1991)
• Ending Secrecy in Defective Product Litigation: New Federal Reporting Rule for Consumer Products, 21 CTLA Forum 103 (1991)
• Aviation Litigation: Protecting Government from Liability - The FAA's Approach to Flight Safety, 21 CTLA Forum 67 (1991)
• Limiting the Application of Proposition 51 in Cases of Liability Based on Public Policy, 20 CTLA Forum 299 (1990)
• Proving a National Real Estate Franchisor's Joint Venture Tort Liability, 20 CTLA Forum 221 (1990)
• Failure to Warn of Product Hazards in California 1988
• New Directions in Product Liability Warning Cases, 18 CTLA Forum 123 (1988)
• Civil Litigation Specialist--Time for Comment, 17 CTLA Forum 173 (1987)
• The Effect of Inflation on Damages for Future Losses, 16 CTLA Forum 173 (1986)
• The Litigation Explosion Myth and the Confusion About Court Congestion, 15 CTLA Forum 290 (1985)
• It's Time for the Bar to Meet the Press, 15 CTLA Forum 234 (1985)
• Attorney's Fees for Pro Bono Services, 15 CTLA Forum 60 (1985)
• Why I am Proud to be a Lawyer, The Recorder,1984
• Ethical Considerations: Organized Labor Actions By District Attorneys and Public Defenders, 21 In Brief 7 (1984)
• Punitive Damages: Corporate Liability for the Acts of Agents and Employees, 13 CTLA Forum 338 (1983) with Robert H. Bohn
• Admiralty, Federalism and the New York Direct Action Statute: Seaman's Rights to Enforce Jones Act Judgments,49 Brooklyn Law Review 1979 (1983)
• How to Harness the Information Explosion, 18 Trial Magazine 74, Washington, D.C., December, 1982, with Michael Kennedy
• Admissibility of Experimental Evidence, 12 CTLA Forum 190 (1982)
• Product Liability Cases: A Game Plan for Success, 12 CTLA Forum 95 (1982)
• Advance Litigation Support: Computerized Information Sources For Trial Attorneys, 12 CTLA Forum 544 (1982)
• The Hazards of Overhead Electrical Catenary Railroad Systems: A Detailed Case Report Of A $8.5 million Recovery, The Recorder, 1981
• Products Liability: Proving the Plaintiff's Case, 18 In Brief 33 (1981)
• Rape Crisis: The Victim's Rights, San Jose State University, 1980
• Consumers' Rights in the Legal Marketplace, 54 California State Bar Journal 314 (1979)
• Privacy, Banking Records and the Supreme Court: A Before and After Look at Miller 1978
• Videotape in the Courtroom, 14 In Brief 50 (1978)
• Privacy, Banking and the Supreme Court: A Before and After Look at Miller, 10 Southwestern University Law Review 13 (1978) with Robert Spurgeon
• Arrest Record Expungement in California: The Polishing of Sterling, 9 University of San Francisco Law Review 299 (1974) with Kathleen Walz, cited Loder v. Municipal Court, 17 C.3d 859, 868 (1976)
• Grand Jury Indictment Versus Prosecution by Information - An Equal Protection - Due Process Issue, 25 Hastings Law Journal 977 (1974) with Sheldon Portman, adopted, Hawkins v. Superior Court, 22 C.3d 584 (1978), cited Johnson v. Superior Court, 15 C.3d 248, 269 (1975) (Mosk, J., concurring)
• The Right to Privacy and Arrest Record Retention of the Innocent, California Attorneys for Criminal Justice Forum, May, 1974

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