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United States of America v. Ronnie Martin

Chicago, IL - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with possessing heroin with the intent to distribute charge.



Ronnie Martin was sentenced to 43 months’
imprisonment for possessing heroin with the intent to distribute. 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1). With his direct appeal of his sentence pending, Martin moved for comp

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State of Ohio v. U.S. Dep't of Education

Cincinnati, Ohio - Disabilities lawyer represented blind plaintiff who sued Defendant on Randolph-Sheppard Vending Stand Act violation theory.



Congress enacted the Randolph-Sheppard Vending Stand Act (RSA) in 1936 to
“provid[e] blind persons with remunerative employment, enlarg[e] the economic opportunities of
the bl

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DUZUAN LESTER v. KEITH ROBERTS, Detective, in his individual capacity; LOUISVILLE METRO GOVERNMENT

Cincinnati, Ohio - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a murder and robbery charge.



Around 7:00 p.m. on August 25, 2007, Dominic Hudson was shot and killed in his
Louisville apartment. Detective Roberts, who worked for the police department’s homicide unit,
No. 20-5011 Lester v. Roberts, et al. Page 3<

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STATE OF TEXAS; STATE OF KANSAS; STATE OF LOUISIANA; STATE OF INDIANA; STATE OF WISCONSIN; STATE OF NEBRASKA v. CHARLES P. RETTIG, in his Official Capacity as Commissioner of Internal Revenue; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

New Orleans, LA - Health and Human Services lawyer represented Plaintiffs - Appellees Cross-Appellants with constitutional challenges to Section 9010 of the Affordable Care Acstitutionalt (the “ACA”) and statutory and constitutional challenges toa U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) administrative rule (the “Certification Rule”).

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. GARY LYNN TOLIVER, JR., a/k/a BG, a/k/a Lil Gary, a/k/a Garry Toliver, Jr. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. MIKAL MUSTAFA MIX, a/k/a Stash, a/k/a Dirty Boy, a/k/a Mikail Mix, a/k/a Man Man

Richmond, VA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendants charged with racketeering and various violent crimes



This case concerns Toliver’s and Mix’s participation in the
BHB gang in Norfolk, Virginia. The evidence presented at trial
described both the overall structure of the gang and specific
instances of

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Pamela Smith v. Tulsa County District Attorney, et al.

Denver, CO - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with an
alleged sexual assault of Ms. Smith when she was an inmate.



This appeal grew out of a state employee’s alleged sexual assault of
Ms. Pamela Smith when she was an inmate. Ms. Smith unsuccessfully sued
the employee in a prior suit. Ms. Smith then br

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United States of America v. Reverend Matthew Hale

Denver, CO - Religious Discrimination lawyer represented defendant
with suing the Federal Bureau of Prisons and some of its officers and employees (collectively, BOP) for religious discrimination.



Mr. Hale is “a minister in The Church of the Creator,” which “embraces and
espouses the religion of Creativity.” R.

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Kevin Chestnut v. Officer Dawain Wallace, St.Louis City Arresting Police Officer, in his individual capacity Officer Tiffany Burns, n/k/a Tiffany Porter; St. Louis City Arresting Officer, in her individual capacity; Officer John Doe, St. Louis City Arresting Police Officer, in his individual capacity; City of St. Louis, Missouri; Justin Ludwig, St. Louis City Police Officer, in his individual capacity

St. Louis, MO - Interlocutory Appeal lawyer represented defendant with an interlocutory appeal from the denial of qualified immunity to a police officer who stopped, frisked, and handcuffed a person who had been watching another police officer perform traffic stops.



According to plaintiff Kevin Chestnut, one evening arou

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United States of America v. Scott Ginsberg

Chicago, IL - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a bank fraud charge.



We view the trial evidence in the light most favorable to
the government. United States v. Wade, 962 F.3d 1004, 1012
(7th Cir. 2020). In 2007, Scott Ginsberg learned of apartments
changing into condominiums in Roselle, Ill

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Nathson Fields v. City of Chicago

Chicago, IL - Criminal defense lawyer represented Plaintiff-Appellee with asserting claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and state law against the City of Chicago and individuals including several Chicago police officers as well as two former Cook County prosecutors. He claims they fabricated evidence and withholding exculpatory evidence in a criminal investigatio

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CODY JONES v. CITY OF ELYRIA, OHIO, et al.

Cleveland, Ohio - Civil Rights lawyer represented Plaintiff-Appellee with a civil rights claim.



A small set of facts is undisputed. Officers Chalkley (often referred to as “Chalkey” in
court documents) and Weber received a call that a potentially intoxicated white male was eating
out of a dumpster located be

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Jean Rodriguez v. State of New Jersey

New York, NY - Civil Rights lawyer represented defendant with an
alleging that his civil rights were violated charge.



In October 2018, Rodriguez filed a complaint in the District Court alleging that his
civil rights were violated through a wide-ranging conspiracy by unidentified “Caucasian
Identity Extremi

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Shakur Gannaway a/k/a Shakur D. Gannaway v. Nicholas Stroumbakis

New York, NY - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant seeking a writ of habeas corpus.



Because we write primarily for the benefit of the parties, we recite only the
relevant facts. In May 2010, Gannaway was convicted in Pennsylvania state court for
robbery and related offenses and sentenced to 15 to 30

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John Doe v. United States of America

New York, NY - Federal Tort Claims Act lawyer represented Appellant with appealing from the final judgment and post-judgment order entered by the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania in his lawsuit under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) claim. Doe is a federal inmate.



The parties are f

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United States of America ex rel. Hassan Foreman v. AECOM et al.

New York, NY - False Claims lawyer represented defendants accused of violating the False Claims Act ("FCA").



26 This action involves a billion-dollar defense contract entered into between
27 AECOM (a publicly held corporation), AECOM Government Services, Inc., AC
28 FIRST, LLC, and AECOM/GSS Ltd. (collectively,

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Quinn Bass v. United States of America

St. Louis, MO - Federal Tort Claims Act lawyer represented Plaintiffs - Appellants with appealing the district court’s1 dismissal of their Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) action for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. .



Quinn Bass, LaToya Garcia, Phynice Kelley, and minors M. B. and T. B.--
through their mother and

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United States of America v. James Bernard Braddy

Atlanta, Georgia - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with possession with intent to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine, and conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine charges.



On September 27, 2018, Officer Austin Sullivan pulled over Braddy on
Interst

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Jeriel Edwards v. City of Muskogee and Police Officers Greg Foreman, Steven Harmon, Bobby Lee, and Dillon Swaim

Denver, CO - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with driving under the influence of drugs (a felony), resisting an officer (a misdemeanor), and possessing a controlled dangerous substance (two felony counts—PCP and Xanax) charges.



Shortly after 10 p.m. on October 25, 2016, Officer Foreman was on pa

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DUSTIN LANCE v. CHRIS MORRIS, Sheriff of Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, in his official capacity; MIKE SMEAD, in his individual capacity; DAKOTA MORGAN, in his individual capacity EDWARD MORGAN, in his individual capacity; DANIEL HARPER, in his individual capacity and MCALESTER REGIONAL HEALTH CENTER AUTHORITY, d/b/a McAlester Regional Hospital; BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF PITTSBURG COUNTY, OKLAHOMA; STEPHEN SPARKS, in his individual capacity; JOEL KERNS, former Sheriff of Pittsburg County, in his individual capacity

Denver, CO - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause.



The parties attribute the priapism to a pill that Mr. Lance obtained
from another inmate. He took the pill on a Thursday evening and awoke the
next morning with an erection that would

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JERIEL EDWARDS v. CITY OF MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA

Denver, CO - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a driving under the influence charge. He now appeals from a district-court order granting summary judgment to City of Muskogee Police Officers Greg Foreman, Steven Harmon, Bobby Lee, and Dillon Swaim on his excessive-force claims



Shortly after 10 p.m. on O

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LARRY STEVEN WILKINS; JANE B. STANTON v. United States of America

San Francisco, CA - Title lawyer represented Plaintiffs-Appellants with a Quiet Title Act (“QTA”) action against the United States.



Appellants Larry Wilkins and Jane Stanton live along
Robbins Gulch Road near Connor, Montana. The road runs
between Highway 93 and the Bitterroot National Forest,
crossing

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Jeffery Just v. City of St. Louis, Missouri and Nellie Kuykendall, in her individual capacity; Eric B. Henry, in his individual capacity

St. Louis - Civil Rights lawyer represented Plaintiff - Appellee with arguing that his his Fourth and First Amendment rights were violated.



On July 7, 2017, Just’s truck ran out of gas near a St. Louis gas station, and,
leaving his truck unattended, Just walked to the gas station to retrieve gasoline.
When h

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Ernest Kirk, et al v. Calhoun County, MI, et al

Cincinnati, Ohio- Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a assault with a dangerous weapon and resisting and obstructing a police officer charge.



On April 9, 2015, Calhoun County Sheriff’s deputies Greg Gammons and Brandy
Edmonds were dispatched to a home in Pennfield Township to investigate a report of

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Tiffany Simpson v. Jon Little, Ike Shirley, and City of Bixby, Oklahoma

This case arises from the fatal shooting of Logan Wayne Simpson by Jon Little, a
patrol officer for the City of Bixby, Oklahoma. Tiffany Simpson, Mr. Simpson’s mother
and personal representative of his estate, sued Officer Little in his individual capacity
under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for excessive force in violation of Mr. Simpson’s Fourth and
Fourteenth Amendment rights. Officer L

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Johnny Strickland v. City of Detroit, MI, et al

Cincinnati, Ohio- Civil Rights lawyer represented Plaintiff-Appellant with a violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Acts of 1964, and retaliation against him for reporting racial discrimination charge.



Plaintiff is an African American police officer. He has been employed by the Detroit
Police Department (“the D

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