Mendocino County, the City of Willits, and California Forensic Medical Group (CFMG) agreed make wide-ranging reforms and pay $5,000,000 to Steven Neuroth's brother after his death in the Mendocino County Jail on June 4, 2011. The callousness shown by Willits officers, the jail nurse, and jail staff leading up to Neuroth's death has sparked outrage by
Santa Cruz County and the City of Capitola paid $2.5 million to settle this case before trial where they caused a 15 year old boy, who they knew was experimenting with LSD, to be shot and killed. This case was brought by Luke’s parents and sister (Haddad & Sherwin LLP…
$2.1 million settlement was reached in 2010 for the four daugters of a man killed by store security guards after he had shoplifted a few dollars worth of merchandise. Security guards chased the man into the parking lot where they tackled him and pil…
Negotiated a substantial settlement for the 81-year-old mother of a man, who was in the wrong place at the wrong time, and who ran from a plainclothes officer who shot him in the back. The officer was acquitted after being charged with 2nd degree mu…
$1.5 Million recovery for the parents and baby daughter of a 20 year old man shot in the back by an Oakland police sergeant, with two previous shootings. Several witnesses saw the officer shoot the young man in the back when the man had nothing in h…
Won substantial monetary settlements for numerous victims of the Oakland Police Department’s use of “less lethal” munitions and intentional police motorcycle collisions against peace demonstrators and journalists at the Port of Oakland on April 7, …
Obtained substantial compensation for an African-American bricklayer who was severely beaten in a racist attack by sheriff’s deputies.
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Won a large verdict with punitive damages for a woman who was assaulted and then falsely accused of a crime by a deputy sheriff.
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Obtained substantial settlements for several women who were harrassed and terminated from their jobs with a sheriff department because they did not support the Sheriff’s reelection campaign…
Successfully represented man severely injured when he was struck on the head with a blackjack by a deputy sheriff….