Harrison W. Hertzberg, L.A. Attorney and Businessman, Dies
Harrison W. Hertzberg, a Los Angeles attorney and businessman whose legal cases involved women’s rights, free speech and the suit that successfully overturned California’s ban on the practice of acupuncture, is dead at age 64.
The Harvard Law School graduate died Jan. 21 at the Kenneth Norris Jr. Cancer Center at USC. He was undergoing treatment for melanoma.
A native of Wisconsin who moved to California in 1949, he once owned or partly owned such restaurants as Ciros and Stefaninos on the Sunset Strip and the old Slate Brothers nightclub in Hollywood.
He also was the attorney who represented the Barona Band of Mission Indians in their battle to run a bingo game on their reservation in eastern San Diego County.
Survivors include his wife, Jeanne, and six sons.
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