University of Southern California Gould School of Law, J.D., 1992
Order of the Coif; Recipient, American Jurisprudence Awards in Administrative Procedure and Business Organizations
Articles Editor, Southern California Law Review

University of California, Los Angeles, B.A., M.A., Philosophy, magna cum laude, 1989
Phi Beta Kappa; College Honors

• Capito v San Jose Health Care System, 17 Cal. 5 253 (2024) (represented amici curiae CommonSpirit Health, Providence St. Joseph Health, and Sharp HealthCare in unanimous Supreme Court decision holding that California hospitals that comply with federal and state price disclosure regulations have no duty to further disclose emergency room management and evaluation services fees to patients in the emergency room, and affirming dismissal of claims under the Unfair Competition Law and Consumer Legal Remedies Act).
• Southern Cal. Clergy Cases, Los Angeles Superior Court No. JCCP5101 (dismissing client Dignity Health hospital with prejudice from suit alleging 1970s-1980s sexual abuse of plaintiff by a former priest at his local church, where priest had developed relationship of trust with plaintiff’s family and allegedly abused plaintiff at his home, and where his later position as hospital chaplain was unrelated to abuse).
• Sarun v. Dignity Health, 2022 WL 2815569 (Cal. App. 2022) (affirming grant of summary adjudication dismissing class action against hospital system client by uninsured emergency room patients complaining that conditions of admission agreements contained an unenforceable “open” price term).
• Krause v. Meyer, 549 F.Supp.3d 1027 (N.D. Cal. 2021) (dismissing complaint without leave to amend because employee bonus plan was not governed by ERISA)
• Gray v. Dignity Health, 70 Cal.App.5 225 (2021) (plaintiff failed to state a claim for unlawful business practices or violation of the CLRA based upon alleged non-disclosure of emergency room level charges).
• Dignity Health v. Starla Rollins, 137 S.Ct. 1652 (2017) (unanimous Supreme Court decision upholding church plan exemption from ERISA for faith-based hospitals’ pension plan)
• Golkar v. Central Pacific Bank, 2012 WL 1095882 (4 Dist. 2012) (affirming summary judgment on breach of personal guaranty of construction loan for housing development).
• SEC v. Capital Consultants, LLC, 397 F.3d 733 (9 Cir. 2005) (affirming distribution plan and distribution to Oregon Laborers-Employers Trust Fund).
• Swanson v. St. John’s Regional Medical Center, 97 Cal. App. 4th 245 (2d Dist. 2002) (upholding hospitals’ third-party lien rights, and affirming dismissal of Unfair Competition Law claim against California’s largest acute-care hospital system).
• Olszewski v. Scripps Health, 30 Cal. 4th 798 (2003) (affirming dismissal of Business & Professions Code Section 17200 claims against hospitals for enforcing liens in personal injury actions by Medi-Cal-insured former hospital patients).
• Grauberger v. Saint Francis Hospital, et al., 169 F. Supp. 2d 1172 (N.D. Cal. 2002) (obtained dismissal of RICO claims against hospital system for alleged improper lien and pricing practices).
• G&G Fire Sprinklers, Inc. v. Bradshaw, 1997 WL 1106525 (9 Cir. 1998) (provisions of the Labor Code allowing the state to seize money and impose penalties for a subtractor’s violation of prevailing wage law violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment)