Kent Alan Halkett

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Member

  Firm Name

  The Law Offices of Kent A. Halkett
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Representative Matters: Obtained a multimillion-dollar judgment (including a $1 million punitive damage award) for a Hong Kong couple defrauded in Southern California.
  Achieved a complete defense victory in a federal RICO action
  a related state court action for interference with the right to practice the medical profession, by a physician against a hospital
  its administrators arising from the physician's peer review proceeding. The federal
  state actions were dismissed at the initial pleading stage
  the federal appellate court affirmed the dismissal of the federal action
  the state appellate court completely dismissed the physician's multiple appeals in the state action.
  Obtained a substantial monetary judgment for an elite private high school in a $100 million cyberbullying action brought by a former student
  his parents. The family publicized their claims, including an interview broadcast nationally on a popular prime-time show. They filed their claims in state court, but the trial court ordered the dispute into binding arbitration
  the appellate court affirmed the merits of the resulting judgment.
  Obtained dismissal of a wrongful death action filed in California state court by the parents of a student who was murdered by a classmate on campus at an out-of-state university. The action was dismissed for lack of personal jurisdiction.
  Assisted in the successful defense of a public university hospitals medical staff in multiple challenges by a physician (who was a tenured faculty member) to the medical staffs summary suspension of all of his clinical privileges at the hospital. The summary suspension was upheld initially by a three-member peer review panel
  again on appeal by the governing hospital board.
  Achieved a defense victory for a private university in an action by a former professor who claimed that he had been defamed
  damaged when his employment was terminated. His defamation claim was the only claim to survive dismissal at the initial pleading stage. Summary judgment was entered against him on that claim.
  Obtained a judgment for a private university in a writ proceeding initiated by a former student who had been dismissed from the institution because of his repeated cheating in violation of its honor code.
  Obtained a complete dismissal of a federal RICO
  securities action pending in the Ohio district court against a Singapore client (seeking in excess of $1 billion arising from a failed real estate resort in Malaysia) with related litigation pending in the courts of the British Virgin Isl
  s, Hong Kong, Malaysia
  Singapore.