$2.6 million was paid to the family of 31-year-old Rogelio “Roger” Serrato Jr., who was killed when members of the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office SWAT Team set fire to his Greenfield, California, home with a flash-bang stun grenade during their a…
Won a $1.2 million jury verdict on behalf of a mother whose schizophrenic son was shot 14 times and killed by police The jury found that the police created a dangerous situation by their inappropriate and overly aggressive tactics. The decedent, who …
After six weeks of trial, our client won a verdict of $575,231 from a San Francisco jury for wrongful arrest, violation of civil rights, and intentional interference with his employment. Our client, Bret Cornell, was an off-duty rookie San Francisco …
Won a $3.5 million settlement for the widow and son of an undercover Oakland police officer mistakenly shot and killed by fellow officers, and also won an appeal in that case making it harder for defendants to escape responsibility for their civil ri…
Successfully represented homeless activists who were arrested and treated unusually harshly by police because of their exercise of free speech rights, winning compensation for the victims and substantial policy changes from the San Francisco Police D…
Achieved a sweeping overhaul of the Oakland Police Department’s Crowd Control Policies with other counsel in cases stemming from the OPD’s shooting of Anti-War demonstrators with “less lethal” munitions at the Port of Oakland on April 7, 2003.
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Alameda County sheriff’s deputies were at a facility for the care of people with developmental disabilities and mental illness when those deputies intervened in a situation where trained staff were calming down a young woman in crises. The young woma…
$2.15 million wrongful death settlement for the death of Irma Dela Torre, who was shot in the back by Salinas police. From this settlement, $1.6 million went to Irma’s 79-year-old mother in Mexico, represented by Haddad & Sherwin; her recent husband…
Matthew Anderson, 28, was high functioning with proper care and medication. But when he was arrested for acting out due to his mental illness, the Siskiyou County Jail failed to provide him with the psychiatric care he needed and could not provide fo…
In 2010, Mario Lopez’s mother called 911 when her son needed immediate care for his mental illness. Expecting an ambulance, a sheriff’s deputy arrived, and rather than take Mario to the hospital as he told Mrs. Lopez he would, he arrested Mario. The …