Mitchell B. Malachowski

Mitchell Malachowski defends large corporations in lawsuits. Working as part of Gordon & Rees’s San Diego Environmental/Toxic Tort practice group, Mr. Malachowski has defended industrial machinery manufacturers, aerospace/defense companies, engineering firms, security services, and other major corporations in civil litigation throughout California. Mr. Malachowski’s practice specializes in the innovative application of creative legal strategies to achieve favorable litigation outcomes.

Mr. Malachowski has extensive experience with complex multi-party litigation, chemical exposure and asbestos cases, and class actions. Additionally, Mr. Malachowski has wide-ranging experience with cases involving mold injury and habitability, construction defect, housing discrimination, and general personal injury/wrongful death.

Admissions

California
United States District Court for the Northern, Central and Southern Districts of California

Publications

From Gitmo with Love: Extraterritorial Habeas Corpus Jurisdiction in the Wake of the Enemy Combatant Cases of 2004
52 Naval Law Review 118 (2005)

Cited by

• Boumediene v. Bush, 476 F.3d 981, 1002-03 (D.C. Cir. 2007) (Rogers, J., dissenting), rev'd, 553 U.S. 723 (2008)
• Darren A. Wheeler, Presidential Power in Action: Implementing Supreme Court Detainee Decisions (2008)
  

Practices

Environmental/Toxic Tort
Commercial Litigation

Office

San Diego

Education

J.D., cum laude, Pepperdine University School of Law, 2006

• CALI Excellence for the Future Award: State Constitutional Law
• Member, Pepperdine Law Review

B.S., Cell-Molecular Biology and Genetics, University of Maryland, 2003