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Mario Gonzalez. Beto Martinez. Thomas Barbosa. These victims and their families relied on the expert civil rights attorneys at Haddad & Sherwin LLP to represent them in tragic cases of wrongful death caused by police excessive force in the state of California. Unfortunately, cases like theirs have become prevalent nationwide…
Whenever someone’s civil rights are violated, it’s an abuse of power that needs to be investigated. Unfortunately, civil rights violations occur far too often in California and across the nation. At Haddad & Sherwin LLP, our firm has generated positive results for clients we’ve represented in landmark civil rights cases…
Plaintiff Magazine recently featured a profile on Haddad & Sherwin’s Michael Haddad and Julia Sherwin in their October 2023 release. The article details the renowned husband and wife team’s introduction to social injustice issues before and after they became attorneys that encouraged them to open their own civil rights law…
Today, Haddad & Sherwin LLP announced through a press release that they have been granted the green light by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to proceed with multiple COVID-19 related cases against the CDCR (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation). These cases stem from a botched transfer of inmates…
In February of 2022, Anthony Galley had been left in a Sacramento County crowded holding cell for over two days. Displaying clear signs of severe alcohol withdrawal, Anthony had been neither evaluated, offered medical care, nor given any solution or treatment. On February 15th, he passed away in the filthy,…
Two federal judges have rejected the State of California’s attempts to escape accountability for its botched transfer of 122 inmates into San Quentin State Prison, which sparked a wildfire of Covid that sickened two-thirds of the San Quentin population and killed 27 people. On May 30, 2020, the State transferred…
Today, civil rights law firm Haddad & Sherwin LLP released the results of the second, independent autopsy it obtained on Mario Gonzalez. The second autopsy, performed by noted forensic pathologist Dr. Bennet I. Omalu, confirms that rather than methamphetamine toxicity, Mario Gonzalez’s cause of death was restraint asphyxiation. In April…
The three Alameda, California, police officers responsible for killing Mario Gonzalez after they pinned him face down on the ground for over five minutes will not be charged criminally for his homicide. According to a report released by the Alameda County District Attorney’s office, the officers were “lawful and objectively…
On March 2nd of 2022, a report released by the Physicians of Human Rights and co-authored by Julia Sherwin was released, disavowing the junk science theory of “Excited Delirium” as racist and unscientific. In the evening of March 2nd, Sherwin was interviewed by Fox at KTVU to elaborate on the…
For years, Haddad & Sherwin attorney Julia Sherwin has been working to dismantle the theory of “Excited Delirium,” a common and baseless defense police use when they kill someone during restraint, like George Floyd, Mario Gonzalez, and Daniel Prude. Now, Sherwin is proud to announce her part in a formal…