Stan E. Levin

Stanley Levin has had an extensive career in public interest litigation. While in law school in New York City, he worked for two years at Columbia University's Center For Social Welfare Policy and the Law. After law school, like so many of the country's best law graduates in the early 1970s, Mr. Levin joined the ranks of public interest litigators at the Legal Aid Society of Hawaii. Mr. Levin eventually became Director of Litigation supervising a team of 30 attorneys in their assault on procedural and constitutional abuses suffered by the poor, disabled, and disadvantaged. Mr. Levin gained a national reputation as a welfare rights, class action lawyer. He has handled and consulted on over 60 class actions all over the country and has been counsel on numerous historic, landmark decisions. Mr. Levin argued and won before the United States Supreme Court, Yamasaki v. Califano, a nationwide class action which articulated certain due process standards required to be shown social security recipients.

Mr. Levin focuses his practice on disabilities law and special education law. He is the recipient of the American Bar Associations John Minor Wisdom Award for public interest advocacy.

Contact Information

Stan Levin
Davis Levin Livingston
400 Davis Levin Livingston Place
851 Fort Street
Honolulu, Hawaii 96813

ph (808) 524-7500 x309
fax (808) 545-7802
slevin@davislevin.com

Position

Partner, Davis Levin Livingston
Born Baltimore, Maryland, September 5, 1946

Bar Admissions

Admitted to bar, 1972
Hawaii and U.S. District Court, District of Hawaii; 1973
U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 1975
U.S. Supreme Court

Books

"Practical, Ethical and Legal Considerations Involved in the Settlement of Cases in Which Statutory Attorney's Fees are Authorized,Vol. 14, No. 6, Clearinghouse Review, October, 1980.

Editor, Federal Litigation Manual, for Legal Services Corporation, 1980

Instructor, Hawaii Bar Association Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Program.

Professional Honors and Associations

Hawaii State and American Bar Associations.

Stan Levin Honored by ABA

1998 Legislature Honors Stan Levin For ABA AWARD

1997 House of Representatives Honors Levin

Eva H. Smyth Award for Outstanding Service to the Hawaii Association of the Blind, 1993.

John Minor Wisdom Award for Outstanding contribution to the quality of justice in his community

Significant Cases

SYamasaki vs. Califano, 442 U.S. 682, S.Ct. 2545

Kaisa vs. Chang, 396 F.Supp 375 (D.Haw, 1975)

Hawaii Psychiatric Society vs. Ariyoshi, 481 F.Supp 1028 (D.Haw, 1979)

Pekarsky vs. Ariyoshi, 695 F.2d 352 (9th Cir., 1982)

Filipo vs. Chang, 618 P.2d 295 (1980)

Daigle vs. Warner. 348 F.Supp, 10746 (1972).

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