Haddad and Sherwin, Civil Rights Attorneys
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Civil Rights Attorneys in California

Haddad & Sherwin LLP specializes in California civil rights claims. A civil rights claim generally arises when the government or its officials violate a person’s Constitutional or statutory rights. These rights can include freedom from wrongful seizure or excessive force by law enforcement officers, “police brutality”, police shootings, restraint asphyxia, indifference to jail inmates’ safety or medical needs, other jail or law enforcement-related deaths or serious injuries, or the right to freedom of speech without government retaliation. These are the types of cases the civil rights attorneys at Haddad & Sherwin LLP have been winning for over twenty years.

Our offices are located in downtown Oakland, California. We handle cases throughout the Bay Area, Northern and Central California, and the Central Valley. View all service areas >

Do you have a Civil Rights Claim in California?

Contact us by filling out the form below to get a free consultation with an experienced, Oakland-based civil rights attorney. Haddad and Sherwin LLP has successfully fought for justice in wrongful death, police shooting, police misconduct, police brutality, excessive force, restrain asphyxia, jail suicide, jail death, and jail medical cases.  We prepare every case for trial.  We are civil rights – trial lawyers.

Please note: if your situation involves law enforcement-related death or permanent physical injuries and we may be able to help you, we will respond within 24 hours.

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  • CASE RESULTS

     
    • $12.75 Million for Distraught Inmate’s Slow-Motion Suicide

      In the largest settlement ever against Wellpath, a national for-profit correctional care company, Haddad & Sherwin LLP won a $12.75 million settlement for Katherine Johnson, the sister of Randall Johnson who died in the Shasta County Jail in 2018.  Wellpath agreed to pay $11.1 million towards the settlement, only five days before trial against them

    • $11.5 Million for Inmate Rendered Quadriplegic

      In a groundbreaking case against Stanislaus County and its private, for-profit jail medical provider, Haddad & Sherwin LLP obtained an $11.5 million settlement for a former inmate who walked into the jail able-bodied, and was carried out on a stretcher — paralyzed from the neck down. Our client, who wishes his name to remain private,

    • $8.3 Million for Jail Death — Largest Wrongful Death Civil Rights Settlement in California State History

      After over four years of litigation and finishing the first week of a 10 week trial, Alameda County and Corizon Health, Inc., a national for-profit jail health care corporation, have ended a wrongful death civil rights case by agreeing to pay $8.3 mi...

    • $7.3 Million Settlement for Police Choke Hold Killing

      This local case involved Pittsburg police officers’ use of a carotid hold and choke hold, and other highly injurious force, on video, while Beto Martinez can be heard saying, “I can’t breathe!” much like the more publicized cases of George Floyd and Eric Garner. On the afternoon of July 26, 2016, City of Pittsburg, California,

    • $7 Million for Sacramento Freeway Shooting

      Justice has prevailed in another case of an unjustified police shooting. Civil rights firm Haddad & Sherwin LLP have won a settlement of $7 million for their client, the mother of Daniel Shaham (31), against the California Highway Patrol (CHP) and then-Officer Paul Shadwell. This remains one of the largest settlements in CHP history and

  • See more of our most notable case results here.