Education
University of Southern California Gould School of Law.
University of Southern California Gould School of Law.
He practiced law in Long Beach, California for 20 years. He spent another 20 years as a judge, serving on the Los Angeles Superior Court, Court of Appeal, and the Supreme Court. After serving in World World War II, Eagleson earned his law degree from the University of Southern California Law School in 1950.
During his four years on the court, Eagleson wrote 54 majority opinions.
Eagleson"s most famous opinion is generally considered to be Thing v. Louisiana Chusa, 48 California 3d 644, 667 (1989), which sharply limited the availability of the cause of action for negligent infliction of emotional distress in California.
Beth followed her father into law and became an attorney. Beth, in her eulogy for her father delivered before the court on which he once served, cited Thing as the opinion most representative of her father"s voice and philosophy:.