Los Angeles Times / Richard Winton, Lila Seidman In a case drawing comparisons to the killing of George Floyd, authorities in the Bay Area city of Alameda are facing growing outrage after a body-camera video showed a police officer appearing to put a knee on the back of a 26-year-old…
The New York Times / Will Wright Body camera footage was released on Tuesday of a 26-year-old man who died in police custody after officers in Alameda County, Calif., pinned him facedown on the ground for five minutes. The footage from the Alameda Police Department shows the man, Mario Arenales…
On Tuesday, November 10, 2020, San Francisco Chronicle reporter Rachel Swan informed me that back in March of this year, the San Francisco District Attorney, Chesa Boudin, had quietly dismissed the criminal cases against the Alameda County Sheriff’s deputies who brutalized our client, Stanislav Petrov, in November 2015, on video.…
After winning the largest ever civil rights wrongful death settlement in California history in 2015, Haddad & Sherwin LLP won the second and third largest California civil rights settlements in 2017. We are proud to fight aggressively and successful…
While Kayleigh Slushers mother faces a murder charge in criminal court, Kayleighs father is moving forward with a civil lawsuit filed against the City of Napa, County of Napa and several police officers and social workers alleging that their negligen…
Haddad & Sherwin LLP is recognized for achieving the largest settlement in a California civil rights case in 2015….
Civil rights law firm Haddad & Sherwin announced today that they have filed a federal civil rights lawsuit on behalf of Bobby Darrell Johnson, Sharon Kay Johnson, Tanya Sueann Johnson, and Tanya’s minor daughter, Angela Johnson. The complaint, filed …
Tulare County has settled for $1 million a lawsuit filed by the family of an Ivanhoe man who died in 2010 after hanging himself inside a county jail cell.In exchange for the money, the family of Mario Antonio Lopez has agreed to drop a federal civil …