Walter M Ingalls

Walter M. Ingalls, the caustic but highly respected former state Assemblyman whose battles with Caltrans produced years of debate, is dead. The Associated Press reported Wednesday that he had died Sunday at his Los Angeles home of liver cancer. Quoting the Riverside Press-Enterprise, the wire service said his death certificate listed the cause of death as liver failure due to chronic active hepatitis. He was 46.

A woman has filed a lawsuit contending that she contracted the AIDS virus from Walter M. Ingalls of Riverside, who served 10 years in the California Assembly and died last year at age 46. Sandi Halverson, in suing Ingalls' estate, said the ex-legislator left her infected with the virus and that she cannot afford proper medical treatment. Halverson, of Norco in Riverside County, filed the action in Riverside Superior Court this week.

A woman has filed a lawsuit contending that she contracted the AIDS virus from Walter M. Ingalls of Riverside, who served 10 years in the California Assembly and died last year at age 46. Sandi Halverson, in suing Ingalls' estate, said the ex-legislator left her infected with the virus and that she cannot afford proper medical treatment. Halverson, of Norco in Riverside County, filed the action in Riverside Superior Court this week.

Walter M. Ingalls, the caustic but highly respected former state Assemblyman whose battles with Caltrans produced years of debate, is dead. The Associated Press reported Wednesday that he had died Sunday at his Los Angeles home of liver cancer. Quoting the Riverside Press-Enterprise, the wire service said his death certificate listed the cause of death as liver failure due to chronic active hepatitis. He was 46.

Former state Assemblyman Walter M. Ingalls was arrested in a Riverside park and cited for misdemeanor lewd conduct, police said Monday. Ingalls, 42, was cited after he allegedly began masturbating as he talked with two plainclothes officers, Riverside police Lt. Gary Barnes said. Ingalls was a Democratic assemblyman for 10 years until 1982, when he was appointed to the state Transportation Commission, where he served until February, 1985.

A decade ago a seminal decision known simply as "Marvin" gave the language a new word, "palimony," and gave California law a new doctrine that provided live-in lovers the legal leverage to share a partner's property when they separated. At the time, a New York judge said Marvin would do for women's rights what Miranda did for criminal law and what Brown vs. Board of Education did for school integration.