Prisoner Civil Rights Law
 
Stephon Eric James v. Randy Smith, et al.

New Orleans, Louisiana pro se Plaintiff without a lawyer sued the Defendants on prisoner civil rights violation theories.

tephon Eric James alleges that while he was a pretrial detainee in the St. Tammany Parish Jail, the deliberate indifference of prison officials and medical staff led to a weeks-long delay in treatment that caused him substantial unnecessary pain around his prosthetic e

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Flint Ridge Property Owners Association, Inc. v. Brenda Sullivan, et al.

Stilwell, Oklahoma, civil litigation lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a quiet title action.

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Garlin Keen v. George Parvu

Stilwell, Oklahoma, civil litigation lawyer represented the Plaintiff in a breach of contract quiet title case.

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Tim Landholt v. Kendall Corley, et al.

Columbia, South Carolina personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a civil rights violation theory.

A South Carolina state court judge issued a bench warrant to arrest Tim Landholt for not paying child support. Sheriff’s deputies soon arrested Landholt, who was fined and sent on his way. But the clerk’s office never recalled or cancelled the executed warrant. Over f

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Kimberly LaFave, et al. v. The County of Fairfax, Virginia, et al.

Fairfax, Virginia civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff challenging the constitutionality of the so-called sensitive places doctrine, which allows the government to restrict the presence of firearms in certain locations.

A Fairfax County ordinance prohibits “[t]he possession, carrying, or transportation of any firearms, ammunition, or components or combination thereof” in vari

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Andrew Morgan v. Allison Crane & Rigging, L.L.C.

Williamsport, Pennsylvania disability lawyer represented the Plaintiff on an Americans With Disabilities Act violation theory.

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 is a landmark civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities
. Its purpose is to guarantee that people with disabilities have the same opportunities as everyone else in areas of

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Jeremy Kellog, et al. v. Jonathan D. Nichols

Albany, New York personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a civil rights violation theory.

The Plaintiffs are New York State residents who applied for concealed carry licenses under the State’s firearms licensing laws. Jonathan D. Nichols, a state court judge serving as a statutory firearms licensing officer, reviewed and denied their applications for failing to meet the stat

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Flores Thomas v. AM Holding Corp., et al.

Nwe York City, New York civil rights lawyer represented the EEOC investigating workplace sexual harassment and hostile work environment at flashdance clubs in New York.

Eunice Raquel Flores Thomas, a former dancer at two adult clubs in New
York City, filed a class charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission (“EEOC”) alleging widespread sexual harassment and a hosti

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Karina Sigalovskaya v. Special Agent Abigail Braden, et al.

Brooklyn, New York personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff on a civil rights violation claim.

Karina Sigalovskaya brought claims of false arrest, malicious prosecution, abuse of process, and the denial of a fair trial against Abigail Braden, Luann Walter, Megan Buckley, and Robert Mancene (collectively, “Defendants”), four special agents of the Homeland Security Investigatio

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Brandon Joseph Phillips v. Barron hall

Macon, Georgia personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a civil rights violation theory.

In June 2019, the Jones County Sheriff’s Office and several
law enforcement agencies initiated Operation Lone Ranger, an ex-
tensive narcotics investigation that involved the wiretapping of
phones of several individuals believed to be involved in the distri-
bution and pur

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Laura A. Gaddy, et al. v. The Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

Salt Lake City, Utah personal Injury lawyer represented the Plaintiffs on RICO theory.

Plaintiffs Laura Gaddy, Lyle D. Small, and Leanne R. Harris are each former members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. They filed a putative class action lawsuit against the Church’s religious corporation,
Defendant Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of

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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

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Vanessa Velasco Ortega v. Isaiah Holloway, et al.

Spokane, Washington personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on civil rights violation theories.

Isaiah Holloway and Vanessa Velasco Ortega cross-appeal from the district
court’s order granting in part and denying in part Holloway’s motion for summary
judgment. Holloway encountered Velasco Ortega in the course of his duties as a
Deputy Police Officer for t

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United States of America v. Gabriel Omar Gigena

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Assaulting a Federal Officer

California Man Sentenced to 15 Months’ Imprisonment for Assaulting a Federal Officer by Putting Him in a Choke Hold


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Nersius adonliel Artisani v. Black Hawk County, et al.

Waterloo, Iowa criminal defense lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a prisoner civil rights violation theory.

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Mary Kay Thomas v. Marshall Public Schools, et al.

Minneapolis, Minnesota employment law lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued asserting claims under the Minnesota Human Rights Act, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, and the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.

Thomas was employed by the District for nearly 30 years, beginning as a
teacher and the

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Gillian Filyaw v. Steve Corsi, et al.

Lincoln, Nebraska civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff in a wrongful termination of Medicaid benefits without notice.

Medicaid is a federal and state funded program that provides medical
coverage for certain people with limited income. Accepting the facts in Filyaw’s
complaint as true, she obtained Medicaid in the fall of 2020 administered through
the NDHHS.

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Jeanne Hedgepth v. James A. Briton, et al.

Chicago, Illinois employment law lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a wrongful termination claim.

Jeanne Hedgepeth, a high
school teacher with two suspensions and prior warnings of
possible termination, posted inflammatory messages to a Fa-
cebook account followed mostly by former students. The
posts prompted numerous complaints and media inquiries to
the school distr

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United States of America x rel. Robert C. O'Laughlin, M.D. v. Radiation Therapy Services, P.S.C., dba Ashland Bellefonte Cancer Center, et al.

Ashland, Kentucky civil litigation lawyers represented the Plaintiff on a qui tam claim.

Dr. Robert O’Laughlin brought this qui tam action on behalf of the United States under the False Claims Act. He claimed that his former employers, providers of radiation and chemotherapy services, fraudulently billed Medicare and other federal programs. He alleged that they falsely represented that

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Raccy Mabel Enriquez-Perdomo v. Richardo A. Newman, et al.

Louisville, Kentucky personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a civil rights violation theory.

Plaintiff Riccy Enriquez-Perdomo entered the United States illegally as a child. She was initially ordered to be deported, but later benefited from Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (“DACA”), which makes her order of removal non-enforceable. Prior to the immediate events, whi

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Gabriel Hale v. Pipeline Video Inspection, L.L.C., et al

Shreveport, Louisiana personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued on an auto negligence theory.

auto negligence laws
. This bill, which went into effect on August 1, 2025, replaces the state's "pure comparative negligence" system with a "modified comparative fault" standard.
New modified comparative fault law (effective August 1, 2025)

Modified compara

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James Newell v. Russell Mccall Inc., et al.

New Orleans, Louisiana personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on auto negligence theories.

Louisiana's auto negligence law is primarily defined by its pure comparative fault system, where a plaintiff's compensation is reduced by their percentage of fault, even if they are mostly at fault. To prove negligence, a plaintiff must establish the four elements of duty, breach,

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Mark Jackson v. G&S Auto Transport, Inc., et al.

New Orleans, Louisiana personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sue on a truck wreck negligence theory.

Louisiana auto negligence law centers on
pure comparative fault, meaning you can recover damages even if you are at fault, but your recovery is reduced by your percentage of fault. To win a negligence claim, you must prove the four elements of negligence: duty, breach, c

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United States of America v. Keith Delpree Mahatha

Greensboro, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant seeking a sentence reduction under the First Step Act, Pub. L. No. 115-391, 132 Stat. 5194 (2018).

In 2007, Mahatha pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute cocaine base,
in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1), (b)(1)(A), and was sentenced to a below-Guidelines
term of 161 months’ impriso

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United States of America v. Enerva W. Trotman, a/k/a Charles Carlos Clark

Raleigh, North Carolina criminal defense lawyers represented the Defendant seeking compassionate release under 18 U.S.C.
§ 3582(c)(1)(A).

(c) Modification of an Imposed Term of Imprisonment.—The court may not modify a term of imprisonment once it has been imposed except that—
(1) in any case—
(A) the court, upon motion of the Director of the Bureau of Prisons, or upon m

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