Class-action lawyer Stan Chesley dies in Ohio
November 3, 2025
Stanley Chesley, a pioneer and long-dominant force in class-action lawsuits whose five-decade legal career ended after accusations of unethical conduct, has died. Chesley was 89. Richard Chesley says his father died Sunday at a long-term care facility in Cincinnati. Chesley won $50 million for victims of the deadly 1977 Beverly Hills Supper Club fire in northern Kentucky. That lawsuit led to many other high-profile cases, including litigation against cigarette companies and the manufacturers of faulty breast implants. Chesley retired soon after the Kentucky Supreme Court in 2013 disbarred him over his conduct in a lawsuit against the producers of diet pills.