C.J. Ciaramella / Reason Magazine “As long as the command staff, the police department, and the city attorney’s office is actively working to enable their misconduct and lawlessness, it’s going to continue,” Haddad says. Read Article
Julie Johnson / The Press Democrat SANTA ROSA – The brother of a Mendocino County man who died while being restrained at the jail has settled a wrongful death lawsuit for $5 million in an agreement that requires two law enforcement agencies provide new training procedures for handling people in…
SANTA CRUZ Complete investigation reports eight exhibits and 17 sections with witnesses names blotched out by black ink of a deadly police shooting on the Westside in October 2016 appeared publicly on the Santa Cruz Police Department website Thursd…
After winning the largest ever civil rights wrongful death settlement in California history in 2015, Haddad & Sherwin LLP won the second and third largest California civil rights settlements in 2017. We are proud to fight aggressively and successful…
The city and county of Napa will split a $5 million payment to the father and the grandparents of 3-year-old Kayleigh Slusher, whose death in January 2014 resulted in murder convictions of the child’s mother and the mother’s boyfriend. Kayleigh’s fat…
SANTA CRUZ The city reached a $1.6 million settlement to resolve a suit by relatives of Sean Arlt, whom police shot and killed in the Westside while investigating a disturbance call more than two years ago. … Arlt, 32, was shot about 3:30 a.m. a…
A San Francisco homeless couple said they watched Alameda County sheriffs deputies who had chased an auto theft suspect into the city severely beat the defenseless man with batons in an alley, and were then given the wounded mans cash and jewelry a…
San Francisco lost a state Supreme Court appeal Wednesday and will have to pay $575,000 in damages, and $2 million in attorneys fees, to a former police trainee who was arrested at gunpoint while jogging in Golden Gate Park and was fired two days lat…
The mother of a 16-year-old fatally shot by Salinas police officers a year ago has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the department. In her federal lawsuit filed Wednesday, Ana Lorena Rodas says police misconduct led up to two officers reckless…
California Highway Patrol Officer Paul Shadwell approaches the passenger side of the parked Toyota sedan with his hands on his hips, saying something to the driver sitting inside. … Within eight seconds, Daniel Shaham emerges from the drivers side,…