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United States of America v. Jonathan Leslie Allen, AKA Johnathan Allen, AKA Ghost

Spokane, Washington, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm. The Defendant claimed that the government commit grand jury abuse by offering perjured testimony. Allen alleges that testimony from an undercover agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) was false because Allen did not “meet” with ag

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Josias Ortiz v. Andrew Sidley-Mackie

Denver, Colorado, pro se Plaintiff sued his lawyer to remove his lawyer on its state criminal case. Sidley-Mackie allegedly refused to do so and instead fraudulently represented to the Colorado Court of Appeals that Ortiz may not be competent to self- represent. Based on these allegations, Ortiz filed this federal lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claiming that Sidley-Mackie had violated his

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Margaret Starks v. St. Louis County, et al.

St. Louis, Missouri, personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a deliberate indifference constitutional violation theory.

Drexel Starks experienced heroin withdrawal while jailed at the St. Louis County Justice Center. He later died at the hospital. His mother, Margaret Starks, sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that jail nurses Reginald Tinoco and Debra
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Stephen Lee Allen v. District Court

Bartlesville, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murder in the first-degree.

¶1 The Petitioner has filed a Petition for Writ of Mandamus requesting that this Court direct the District Court of Washington County to grant Petitioner's discovery requests in Case No. CRF-90-239. Petitioner appeals from an order by the District Court denying in part and

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Stephen Benavides v. Harris County, Texas

Houston, Texas, personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff on civil rights violation theories under 42 U.S.c. 1983.

On December 26, 2019, at approximately 7:19 p.m., Deputy Jose Nunez of the Harris County Sheriff’s Office responded to a 911 call reporting a suspected in-progress home invasion. The caller, Sandra Garibay, informed the dispatcher that she had locked herself and

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Marcus L. Willis v. Diaz De Leon, Jeff Williams, Chief, City of Bedford

Dallas, Texas personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued on civil rights violations under 42 U.S.C. 1983.

Plaintiff Marcus L. Willis was driving in Bedford, Texas when Defendant Officer Diaz De Leon pulled him over. De Leon informed Willis that he stopped him for driving without valid insurance.1 De Leon then stated he smelled marijuana and proceeded to search Willisâ€

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Juliana Swink v. Souothern Health Partners, Inc., et al.

Greensboro, North Carolina personal injury lawyer represents the Plaintiff on medical malpractice, wrongful death and civil rights claims.

David Ray Gsunter was diagnosed with a heart condition shortly after birth. At fifteen years old, to address his heart condition, Gunter underwent open-heart surgery to replace his aortic valve with a mechanical heart valve (“MHV”).
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Jeanne Llera and Jorge L. Gomez v. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department

Las Vegas, Nevada, personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff on 42 U.S.C. 1983 civil rights violation theories.

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Ronald Jensen v. Cody Lane, et al.

Denver, Colorado, personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff on a civil rights violation, 42 U.S.C. 1983 claim.

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William Henry Jamerson v. City of Tulsa, et al.

Tulsa, Oklahoma personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff was charged with first-degree rape in 1991.

Jamerson was 22 when he was arrested in May 1991 in connection with the rape of 16-year-old Kayleen Dubbs behind a midtown Tulsa diner. Police relied on a blood-type test of semen collected during a sexual-assault exam, a kind of testing that police used before more reliable result

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Estate of Donovan L. Lewis v. City of Columbus, Ohio, et al.

Columbus, Ohio personal injury lawyer represents the Plaintiff who sued on an excessive force civil rights violation theory.

Twenty-year-old Donovan Lewis was at home in bed, around 2 a.m., when police officers entered his apartment to arrest him on outstanding warrants. Once inside the residence, Officer Ricky Anderson fatally shot the unarmed Lewis in the abdomen as he sat up in bed. Pu

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Myisha Niter, et al. v. Marian Brown, et al.

Dallas, Texas personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued on a deliberate indifference civil rights violation theory.

Christopher Darnell Williams died by suicide while detained in Dallas County Jail. His family sued the Texas Department of Public Safety, (“TDPS”), Dallas County, Sheriff Marian Brown, and unknown jail employees. Plaintiff-Appellants brought clai

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Guistina Aprileo v. Cheryl Claporood, et al.

Springfield, Massachusetts, personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff on an excessive force claim.

In 2018, Guistina Aprileo requested police assistance with resolving a disagreement at her
home between her adult children. Soon after the police arrived, she found herself in a dispute with one of the officers, which led to her arrest on charges including disorderly conduct. Rath

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Jay F. Vermillion v. Tom Francum, et al.

Indianapolis, Indiana, civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff on civil rights violation theory.

Jay Vermillion, a prisoner at Pendleton Correctional Facility in Indiana, appeals from the summary judgment rejecting his claims that prison officials dismissed him from his job in the prison’s law library in retaliation for prior lawsuits.

This suit arises from Vermilli

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Andrew D. Coe v. Darrin Atkins, et al.

Chicago, Illinois, personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendants on civil rights violation theories.

Andrew Coe sued four correctional officers and a doctor under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging they were deliberately indifferent to his need for high-top shoes to manage his painful foot condition.

To walk, Coe uses a cane and wears leg braces. When Coe a

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Ibhar Al Mheid v. Kathy Mincihew, et al.

Macon, Georgia, Ibhar Al Mheid, proceeding pro se, without a lawyer, filed a lawsuit in the Northern District of Georgia against a police officer, a prosecutor, a state court judge, and a jail healthcare provider, bringing claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and state law.

Al Mheid, a physician who lived in Atlanta, was in a romantic relationship with Grace Wright, a college student in Athe

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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

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United States of America v. Devin Long

Cleveland, Ohio, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with drug possession and firearm felonies.

As they surveilled Devin Long, officers observed him engage in several suspected drug transactions. Based on these discoveries, a magistrate judge issued a warrant to search Long’s house for evidence related to drug trafficking. The search turned up a host of illega

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Charles Bozzo v. Jennifer Nanasy, et al.

Grand Rapids, Michigan, employment law lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a civil rights violation theory under 42 U.S.C. 1983.

rles Bozzo was fired from his job as a correctional officer with the Michigan Department of Corrections after a coworker accused him of making harassing comments. Years later, he sued two MDOC employees under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming that
the p

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Malcolm Scott and De’Marchoe Carpenter v. City of Tulsa, et al.

Tulsa, Oklahoma personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiffs on civil rights violation theory under 42 U.S.C. 1983.

They were convicted when they were teenagers of first-degree murder, for the 1994 shooting death of 19-year-old Karen Summers, after being identified by witnesses.

Malcolm Scott and De’Marchoe Carpenter were convicted when they were teenagers of first-de

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Robert W. Otto and Julies H. Hamilton v. City of Boca Radon, Florida and County of Palm Beach, Florida

Miami, Florida personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiffs who sued on civil rights violation theories un 42 U.S.C. 1983.

Otto and Hamilton are marriage and family therapists licensed to practice mental health counseling in Florida. They sued Palm Beach County and the City of Boca Raton in the West Palm Beach division of the Southern District of Florida, alleging that or dinances

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Chanetlle Jones v. City of Sarasota Springs

Salt lake City, Utah personal injury laweyrs represented the Plaintiff who soed on a 42 U.S.C. 1983 civil rights violation theory.

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Estate of Ian Simmers v. County of King, et al.

Seattle, Washington, personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a civil rights violation claim.

After confessing to the crime, Ian Simmers was convicted in 1996 in the
Superior Court of Washington for King County for first-degree murder when he
was sixteen years old. Decades later, Simmers moved for a new trial. In response,
the State moved to vacate the conviction, w

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United States of America v. Estate of Anthony Ray Lopez, Sr. v. City of Oontairo, et al.

San Bernardino, California personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiffs on 42 U.S.C. 1983 civil rights violation theory.

Anthony Ray Lopez Sr., Madeline Vasquez, and Josephine Guadalupe
Dominguez (collectively, “Decedents”) died on November 8, 2022, while in a storm
drain in the City of Ontario, County of San Bernardino, State of California, after
flood offi

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Alonzo G. Davison v. Clifford Smith, et al

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, inmate proceeding pro se, appeals the district court’s sua sponte dismissal of his complaint filed under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.

Plaintiff is serving a 45-year prison sentence based on 2002 convictions in Tulsa County District Court of lewd molestation of a child and sexually abusing a minor. After the Supreme Court’s decision in McGirt v. Oklahoma, 59

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