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Belli, Melvin Mouron
(b.
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29 July in Sonora, California; d. 9 July in San Francisco, California), attorney whose extravagant private life and flamboyant courtroom behavior often overshadowed formidable legal skills that, over time, reshaped the trial tactics of lawyers across the country, won his clients substantial settlements, and earned him the title “king of torts” in the second half of the twentieth century.
Belli was the only child of Leonie Mouron Belli, a housewife, and Caesar Arthur Belli, a well-to-do banker and rancher whose Swiss-Protestant forebears had settled in the American West after the Civil War. Raised in Sonora and then in Stockton, California, he was named class valedictorian at Stockton High School in , only to be expelled two weeks before graduation for being drunk on school grounds.
His father successfully sued the school administration for his diploma, teaching him, he said, the power of the law and of lawyers to transform lives.
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