Deliberate Indifference Law
 
JETALL COMPANIES, INC. V. RICHARD HEIL, TODD OAKUM, AND RENEE DAVY F/K/A RENEE DAVY F/K/A RENEE OAKUM

Houston, Texas – Employment lawyer represented Appellant with contending the trial court erred on its tort and contract claims against appellees.



Jetall’s claims against appellees in the underlying lawsuit derive from an
earlier, separate lawsuit to which appellees were parties but Jetall was not—namely,
a wrongf... More...
   $0 (09-13-2022 - TX)

STATE OF KANSAS v. TY R. ZEINER

Topeka, KS – Criminal Defense lawyer represented defendant with a driving while under the influence (DUI) charge.



Ty Zeiner was convicted of driving while under the influence (DUI)
after he was found by Deputy Starkey asleep in the driver's seat of his SUV and parked
alongside a gravel road. Because the district cour... More...
   $0 (09-09-2022 - KS)

United States of America v. Nathaniel L. Knox

Columbus, Ohio criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with execution of a fraudulent scheme to solicit payments from dozens of individuals in exchange for purported hunting leases he had no rights to sell.

Throughout 2019, Nathanal L. Knox, 30, of Ohio, operated a scheme where he placed online advertisements for hunting leases, supposedly available on several parcels of land in Ohi... More...
   $0 (09-08-2022 - NC)

United States ex rel Swanton v. Zou, et al.

Denver, Colorado criminal lawyer represented Defendant charged with violation of the False Claims Act.

Instec Inc. (Instec), located in Boulder, Colorado, and Dr. Zhong Zou, Instec’s owner and president, have agreed to pay $625,000 to resolve allegations that the company and Zou violated the False Claims Act by failing to comply with the requirements of the Buy American Act (BAA) when ... More...
   $0 (09-07-2022 - CO)

Jeffrey Hall v. Val Brown, et al.

Salt Lake City, Utah personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendants claiming that they violated his civil rights.


Plaintiff Jeff Hall sues Salt Lake Police Department Officers Val Brown and Kevin Murray and the City of Salt Lake, asserting that Officers Brown and Murray deprived him “of his rights protected under the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendments to th... More...
   $0 (08-29-2022 - UT)

Lori Nicholson v. Biomet, Inc.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa personal injury lawyers represented Plaintiffs, who sued Defendants on product liability theories.

This products liability case arises out of the multidistrict litigation1 (“MDL”)
proceedings regarding Biomet’s M2a Magnum hip-replacement device. After
experiencing complications from a hip replacement surgery using the M2a Magnum,
Lori Nicholson sued Bi... More...
   $0 (08-26-2022 - IA)

Joseph Weaver v. The State of Texas Child Sexual Predator

Fort Worth, Texas – Criminal Defense lawyer represented defendant with indecency with a child by contact and three counts of sexual assault of a child charges.



Weaver and Lisa1 met on the first day of their senior year in high school after
Weaver moved with his family to North Texas from Houston. Weaver and Lisa
began... More...
   $0 (08-15-2022 - TX)

IN THE INTEREST OF B.A.M., A Child

Houston, TX – Child Custode lawyer represented defendant with appealing the Final Order terminating her parental rights to her child.



Mother and Father had one child, B.A.M., born on March 27, 2015, who is
the subject of this suit. This investigation of Mother1 began in December 2020 after
appellee, the Department o... More...
   $0 (08-14-2022 - TX)

Lindsey Bage v. Galveston County, et al.

Galveston, Texas personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendants on a civil rights violation theory under 1983.


This case involves the unfortunate death of Kirk Andrew Swartz (“Swartz”), which occurred after his incarceration at the Galveston County Jail. Plaintiff Lindsey Bage (“Plaintiff”)-individually, as Swartz's heir, and as the representative
of Sw... More...
   $0 (08-12-2022 - TX)

United States of America v. Franklin Freddy Meave Vazquez

Boston, Massachusetts criminal law lawyer, murder in the second degree, one count of attempted murder and one count of assault with a dangerous weapon.

Franklin Freddy Meave Vazquez, 31, was pleaded guilty to one count of murder in the second degree, one count of attempted murder and one count of assault with a dangerous weapon. Meave Vazquez, a Mexican national, is in the United States i... More...
   $0 (08-11-2022 - MA)

United States of America v. Parviz Sharifazi

Baton Rouge, Louisiana criminal law lawyer represented Defendant charged with mail fraud and money laundering.

In 2008 and 2009, Praviz Sharifrazi, age 70, from Baton Rouge, was working as an associate professor at Southern University (“Southern”) and trying to raise money for an unrelated business venture in Iran. Beginning in 2008, he and a co-defendant, who was working as the Info... More...
   $0 (08-04-2022 - LA)

United States of America v. Parviz Sharifrazi

Baton Rouge, Louisiana criminal law lawyer represented defendant charged with mail fraud and money laundering.

In 2008 and 2009, Sharifrazi was working as an associate professor at Southern University (“Southern”) and trying to raise money for an unrelated business venture in Iran. Beginning in 2008, he and a co-defendant, who was working as the Information Technologies (IT) Directo... More...
   $0 (08-04-2022 - LA)

THE STATE OF OHIO v. BRINKMAN

Columbus, OH - Criminal Defense lawyer represented defendant with a direct appeal in a capital case.



A. The Johns’ bodies are discovered
{¶ 3} The John family had known Brinkman for some time. According to
Gene’s son, Jason, the family met Brinkman a decade earlier when Brink... More...
   $0 (07-31-2022 - OH)

United States of America v. Tou Thao and J. Alexander Kueng

Minneapolis, Minnesota criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with depriving a citizen of rights under color of law.

Minneapolis Police Officer Tou Thao, 36, was sentenced to serve 42 months in prison, and former Minneapolis Police Officer J. Alexander Kueng, 28, was sentenced to serve 36 months in prison, for depriving George Floyd Jr. of his constitutional rights.
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   $0 (07-27-2022 - MN)

Cynthia Stella v. Davis County

Salt Lake City, Utah civil rights lawyers represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a prisoner civil rights violation wrongful death theory.

Cynthia Stella, individually and on behalf of The Estate of Heather Miller, deceased, sued Davis County Utah on a 1983 prisoner civil rights theory claiming that Heather Miller died as a direct result of deliberate indifference.


Ms. ... More...
   $0 (07-26-2022 - UT)

Johnny Hincapie v. City of New York, et al.

On September 2, 1990, Brian Watkins, a tourist from Utah, was stabbed to death on a New York City subway platform. In the immediate aftermath of the attack, officers from both the New York Police Department (“NYPD”) and Transit Police Department (“Transit PD”) interviewed and arrested a host of witnesses and suspects. Several suspects were prosecuted, convicted, and sentenced to lengthy pr... More...   $0 (07-21-2022 - NY)

United States of America v. Thomas Lane

St. Paul, Minnesota criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with depriving others of their rights under color of law.

Former Minneapolis Police Officer Thomas Lane, 39, was charged with depriving George Floyd Jr., of his constitutional rights.

On Feb. 24, 2022, following a trial that lasted nearly five weeks, a federal jury in St. Paul, Minnesota, found Lane guilty... More...
   $0 (07-21-2022 - MN)

Antrone Coleman a/k/a Antron Coleman v. State of Mississippi

Jackson, MS - Criminal Defense lawyer represented defendant with first-degree murder and shooting into an occupied dwelling charges.



On Thanksgiving Day 2014, Shaggery Jones and three others drove up to the home
of Shenique Gaddis on Garfield Circle in Jackson. Antrone Coleman was stand... More...
   $0 (07-20-2022 - MS)

DOUGLAS BLACKMAN vs THE STATE OF FLORIDA

Miami, Florida - Criminal Defense lawyer represented defendant with a second-degree murder charge.



Blackman was charged and tried for the second-degree murder of
Jerrod Rolle. The trial commenced on Wednesday, June 27, 2018, and
ended on Friday, June 29, 2018. Jury deliberations ... More...
   $0 (07-14-2022 - FL)

United States of America v. Jovanny Medina

Kansas City, Kansas criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with international drug trafficking ring.

Back in April 2022, Jovanny Medina, 24, of Kansas City, Kansas, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine. According to court documents, Medina took part in a conspiracy to traffic illegal narcotics s... More...
   $0 (07-11-2022 - KS)

State of Oklahoma v. Justin Malone

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense attorney represented Defendant, charged with first-degree murder for shooting and killing Chrisian Amaya Hernandez.

21 O.S. 701.1 provides:

A. A person commits murder in the first degree when that person unlawfully and with malice aforethought causes the death of another human being. Malice is that deliberate intention unlawfully to take away the ... More...
   $0 (07-08-2022 - OK)

State of Colorado v. Oscar Villegas-Ortega

Denver, Colorado criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with first-degree murder with extreme indifference, manslaughter and first-degree assault.

Oscar Villegas-Ortega, age 23, shot and killed Fausto Marquez, age 30, during a fight in 2020 that spilled out of a 1-year-old's birthday party into a restaurant parking lot.... More...
   $0 (07-08-2022 - CO)

United States of America v. Derek Chauvin

Minneapolis, Minnesota criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with depriving George Floyd, jr. and a then-14-year-old child of their constitutional rights.

On Dec. 15, 2021, former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin, age 46, pleaded guilty in federal court to two violations of a federal criminal civil rights statute. First, Chauvin pleaded guilty to willfully deprivin... More...
   $0 (07-07-2022 - MN)

Robbie Emery Burke v. Voc Regalado, et al.

Tulsa, Oklahoma personal injury lawyers represented Plaintiffs, who sued Defendants on prisoner civil rights violation theories under 42 U.S.C. 1983 claiming that Mitchell Lee Godsey, age 59, died in the Tulsa County jail as a direct result of deliberate indifference including medical negligence and understaffing.

Godsey died less than 32 hours after being booked in to the jail for failin... More...
   $0 (07-06-2022 - OK)

United States of America v. Bradley Wade Wofford

Tulsa, Oklahoma criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with driving under the influence of methamphetamine and causing a crash that killed another driver in Indian Country.

On June 10, 2019, Bradley Wofford, age 35, was driving a Ford F-150 on U.S. 412 near County Road 4180 when an accident further down the road caused traffic to slow. Wofford failed to follow suit and rear... More...
   $0 (07-01-2022 - OK)

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