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Dr. James Taylor, ex rel. United States of America v. Kaiser Permanente
San Francisco, California, qui tam lawyers represented the Plaintiffs who sued the Defendant on a False Claims Act violation theory. Under the Medicare Advantage (MA) Program, also known as Medicare Part C, Medicare beneficiaries may opt out of traditional Medicare and enroll in private health plans offered by insurance companies known as Medicare Advantage Organizations, or MAOs. The Centers f... More...
$556000000 (01-15-2026 - CA)United States of America v. Charles River Laboratories, Inc.
San Francisco, California, commercial litigation lawyers represented the Defendant accused of unlawfully manufacturing and distributing of controlled substances between 2019 and 2022 in violation of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). – Charles River Laboratories, Inc. (CRL), successor by merger to Explora Biolabs Holdings, Inc., a provider of contract vivarium research services, was previ... More...
(01-05-2026 - CA)The People of the State of California v. Sergio Alvarado
San Francisco, California criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with rape and sexual assault. Sergio Alvarado, age 60, exually assaulted the first victim, a relative, repeatedly over a period of several months. Several years later, Mr. Alvarado assaulted the other victim, a 16-year-old relative, in his car after he offered to drive her to a job interview. The case against... More...
(12-24-2025 - ca)United States of America v. Ramesh "Sunnty" Balwani and Elizabeth A. Homes
San Francisco, California criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charge with fraud. Elizabeth Holmes’s and Ranesh “Sunny” Balwani’s defrauding investors out of $452 by lying about Theranos’s blood-testing technology. The Indictment further alleged that Holmes and Balwani devised a scheme to defraud patients through advertisements and marketing materials boasting abou... More...
(12-22-2025 - CA)United States of America v. Xin Mian Pan (a/k/a “Henry Pan”), Hua Liang Xie (a/k/a “Nolan Xie”), Jinhua Wang (a/k/a “Johnson Wang”), Uni-Tile & Marble, Inc., Uni-Stone & Cabinet, Inc., and Shenzhen Top & Profit International Forwarding Co. Ltd.
San Francisco, California, criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendants charged with evading more than $109 million in anti-dumping duties, countervailing duties, and other duties imposed on quartz surface products, wooden cabinets and vanities, and ceramic tiles manufactured in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and imported into the United States. Xin Mian Pan, 63, of San Francis... More...
(12-19-2025 - CA)United States of America v. Jesse Ybarra
San Francisco, California criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with felony possession of a firearm in of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1).... More...
(11-24-2025 - CA)United States of America v. Joseph Sullivan
San Francisco, California, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with obstruction of proceedings before the Federal Trade Commission and misprison of a felony. Misprision is the crime of “having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony†and “conceal[ing]†or failing to “as soon as possible make known the same to some judge or oth... More...
(11-18-2025 - CA)United States of America v. Kirill Afanasyev
San Francisco, California, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud. Jose Vicente Badillo, Kirill Afanasyev, Jason Naraja, and Jaime Respicio conspired to defraud an auto insurance company by submitting a fraudulent insurance claim on a wrecked car that Afanasyev purchased in May 2019. The Indictment alleges that, when Afanasyev bought... More...
(11-07-2025 - CA)Reynoldo Gonzalez, et al. v. Google, Inc.
San Francisco, California personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiffs. The plaintiffs in Gonzalez v. Google are relatives of a U.S. citizen murdered by ISIS terrorists in France. They alleged that Google violated the Anti-Terrorism Act when it affirmatively recommended ISIS-produced terrorist videos to its users, thereby aiding, abetting, and/or providing substantial assistance to I... More...
(11-07-2025 - CA)United States of America v. Luis Antonio Tzun-Magana
San Francisco, California, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with illegal reentry following removal by an aggravated felon.... More...
(10-28-2025 - CA)Mr Michael Devin Floyd v. Santa Clara Department of Corrections, et al.
San Francisco, California civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff who claimed that his rights were violated by the Defendants. Late in the evening on August 18, 2021, Plaintiff-Appellant Michael Devin Floyd was arrested and brought to the Santa Clara Main Jail for booking. Four hours later, Floyd was transferred to the nearby Elmwood Correctional Facility. There, correct... More...
(10-28-2025 - CA)San Francisco, San Mateo, and Santa Clara Counties v. WAG Hotels
San Francisco, California, civil litigatoin lawyer representeds the Defendant charged with violation of California Pet Boarding law. “For many of us, pets are members of the family,†said District Attorney Brooke Jenkins. “When we drop them off at a boarding facility, we do so expecting that they will be treated like beloved family members. This settlement helps ensure t... More...
(10-07-2025 - CA)Judah Rosenwald, et al. v. Kimberly-Clark Corporation
San Francisco, California, consumer law lawyers represented the Plaintiffs on class action theory. Plaintiffs allege that they purchased Kleenex Germ Removal Wet Wipes. They sued Kimberly-Clark in August 2022, claiming that the wipes’ labels misled them into believing that the wipes contained germicides, not just soaps, and would kill germs, not just wipe them away. The distric... More...
(09-25-2025 - CA)The People of the State of California v. Daniel Patrick Rodriguez, Jr.
San Francisco, California, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Murder. Daniel Patrick Rodriguez Jr. (42) was charged with murder in connection to a fatal stabbing on September 10, 2025. Mr. Rodriguez is scheduled to be arraigned on September 16, 2025, at 1:30 p.m. in Department 19 at the Hall of Justice. The District Attorney’s Office will move to have hi... More...
(09-19-2025 - CA)The People of the State of California v. Teangelo Harrison and Tommy Thompson
San Francisco, California criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murder. Teangelo Harrison (22) and Tommy Thompson (28) were charged with murder in connection to a drive-by shooting in the Bayview District in 2023. Mr. Harrison and Mr. Thompson are both charged with one count of murder (PC 187 (a)), one count of discharge of firearm at an inhabited dwelli... More...
(09-08-2025 - CA)United States of America v. Kenneth Orlando Sparks, aka Kenneth Sparks
San Francisco, California criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with production of child portnography. Kenneth Orlando Sparks was charged with production of child pornography, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a), and sex trafficking of a minor, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1591(a)(1). The Fourth Amendment protects against the unreasonable “[t]em... More...
(09-08-2025 - CA)The People of the State of California v. Michael Watson
San Francisco, California criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with indecent exposure. Micahel Watson, age 35, was accused of multiple indecent exposure incidents in San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood was convicted by a jury on multiple felony counts. ... More...
(08-29-2025 - CA)Andrew Pandolfi, et a. v. Aviagames, Inc., et al.
San Francisco, California civil litigation lawyers represented the parties in a breach of contract arbitration dispute. The court denied the Defendants' motion to compel arbitration. An arbitration agreement is substantively unconscionable when it contains multiple substantively unconscionable provisions, including the batching provision, which on its own is substantively unconsc... More...
(08-28-2025 - CA)The People of the State of California v. Jian Feng Li
San Francisco, California criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with sexual battery, indecent exposure and lewd content. Jian Feng Li was accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old in the sauna area of a gym on July 11, 2024.... More...
(08-22-2025 - CA)United States of America v. Harlan Leroy Kelly, Jr., aka Halan Kelly
San Francisco, California, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit bank raud.... More...
(08-17-2025 - CA)John Doe, et al. v. Twitter, Inc.; X Corp.
San Francisco, California employment law lawyers represented the Plaintiffs who sued Defendant claiming that it hosted illegal content -- namely, child porn. When Plaintiff John Doe #1 was 13 years old, he communicated on Snapchat with an individual who Doe #1 thought was his classmate. The Snapchat user requested nude images from Doe #1 and his friend, Plaintiff John Doe #2, who both com... More...
(08-07-2025 - CA)United States of America v. Carlos Adolfo Haeckermann Cardenas
San Francisco, California criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Firearms Offenses, including Unlawfully Possessing a Machine Gun Founder of Punjabi Devils Motorcycle Club Stockton Charged with Firearms Offenses, including Unlawfully Possessing a Machine Gun... More...
(07-31-2025 - CA)Curtis Alcorn Devlin v. Michelle King, et al.
San Francisco, California disability lawyer represented the Plaintiff seeking review of the denial by HHS of his application for Social Security: DIWC/DIWW benefits.... More...
(07-08-2025 - CA)Jessie Wilson, et al. v. City of Antioch, et al.
San Francisco, California personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff on a 42 U.S.C. 1983 civil rights violation theory. Two Antioch residents filed a civil rights lawsuit this week alleging city police officers intentionally injured them with a police dog and less-lethal launchers for amusement, bragged about their use of excessive force in text messages, and falsified records to c... More...
$1 (07-08-2025 - CA)Sonni Echeverria-Corzan v. Dolls Kill, Inc.
San Francisco, California civil litigation lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendant on a breach of contract theory. ... More...
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