And welcome to Handel on the law.

Oh, before I get into the monologue and start taking phone calls, I want to remind you that I have a podcast that's up and running.

And it's the Bill Handel show podcast.

And it's not what I do in the morning, Monday through Friday.

It's a separate podcast, which I talk about, I don't know, current events and I I throw history in there, and my analysis, whatever that's worth, and just stuff. And it, what it does drop every Tuesday and Thursday, a new episode drops at 9 o'clock Pacific. And what recently would have done, then the, some news on the assassination attempts and Boeing,

the Boeing company of its problems and then stuff like, uh, I got two episodes on how dying is

better than living. I love stuff like that. It's the Bill Handle Show podcast and the website is

the Bill Handleshow podcast.com. Now, I want to tell you about a lawsuit that

has just been filed. Back in 2023, there was yet another accident on Pacific Coast Highway in

Malibu. And for Pepperdine students, and Pepperdine is a school right above Pacific Coast Highway overlooking

the beach. It's a gorgeous campus. So there were four Pepperdine students that were walking.

They were killed when a car swerved off the road, and they filed lawsuits against the state of

California, against Caltrans, against the California Coastal Commission, against L.A. County and against the city of Malibu.

Why? Because the argument is allegedly dangerous roadway design. And this gets to be a really tricky lawsuit because, I mean, obviously they're always very severe damages.

People die.

They are permanently damaged traumatic brain injury or whatever.

And the argument is that the roadway was so badly designed and built.

And this is, you're talking about a county roadway or, in this case, a local roadway

overseen by Caltrans, California Transportation Department, that all of a sudden, now you're

talking about a serious lawsuit. That's what happened here. Four kids dying. And no, okay, you know,

I mean, that's a real difficult lawsuit to, to prove. First of all,

you have to have all kinds of engineers there, experts who are going to argue it's badly designed.

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