Torts/Personal Injury,
Immigration
Jan. 9, 2025
Will our courts protect catastrophically injured immigrants?
Two-and-a-half years after highlighting a silicosis epidemic among Hispanic workers, legal efforts are now underway to protect their access to court amid challenges to the California Values Act and concerns over federal immigration enforcement in state courthouses.
Raphael Metzger
Principal
Metzger Law Group
Phone: (562) 437-4499
Email: rmetzger@toxictorts.com
Raphael Metzger is the principal of the Metzger Law Group, a boutique toxic tort litigation firm in Long Beach that represents about 250 immigrant fabricators who suffer from silicosis. Metzger filed the first such case and has led the litigation since its inception. His firm has also filed a class action on behalf of all workers exposed to engineered stone dust in California to obtain medical monitoring to detect silicosis and other lethal diseases that are caused by engineered stone.
About two-and-a-half years ago, I wrote about a new silicosis epidemic that began in California at about the same time as Covid. ("A new epidemic of an ancient disease," Daily Journal July 12, 2022).
Silicosis is an ancient disease; it has been detected in mummies of Egyptians who built the pyramids and slaves who built the temples in ancient Greece and Rome.
Silicosis is ...
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