Civil Rights Law
 
Elizabeth F. Warner v. Louis DeJoy, Postmaster General of the United States Postal Service

Concord, New Hampshire, employment law lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a job discrimination claim.

Elizabeth Warner is a federal postal employee who was passed over for two promotions. Believing that she was denied those positions because of her age and sex, she sued her employer, the United States Postal Service (USPS). Warner alleged that USPS discriminated against her in violation

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Ian Miller v. Spencer Jackson and Sean Roycroft

Boston, Massachusetts, personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff on a civil rights wrongful death excessive force case.

Robert Miller died during a run-in with Barnstable
police officers Sean Roycroft and Spencer Jackson at his Cape Cod
home in 2019. He was 63. A big question is how this happened.

The parties (whose names appear in our caption) give differing

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United States of America v. Dennis Adlai Hernandez

Kansas City, Missouri criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Child Pornography Offenses

Independence Elementary School Teacher Charged With Child Pornography Offenses



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Emma Jane Prospero v. Deputy Ryan Sullivan, et al.

Brunswick, Georgia pro se Plaintiff representing herself without a lawyer on a civil rights claims.

Emma Jane Prospero has, by her own account, called 911 “a
gazillion times.” Among the issues she complained about,
Prospero often called to report gunshots coming from behind a gas
station near her home that the Camden County Sheriff’s Office
(“the Sheriff’s Office

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Anna Lange v. Houston County, Georgia, et al.

Macon, Georgia employment law lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a civil rights violation theory.

Anna Lange, a transgender woman and deputy at the Hou-
ston County Sheriff’s Office, sought a male-to-female sex change
surgery1 and requested that the County’s employer-provided
health insurance pay for it. But because the County’s insurance pol-
icy excludes “[d]rug

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United States of America v. Joshua Eugene Gaines

Birmingham, Alabama criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with felony possession of a firearm.

After pleading guilty to a crime classified by Alabama law as
a Class D felony, Joshua Gaines was caught in possession of a fire-
arm. He was charged with and convicted of violating 18 U.S.C.
§ 922(g)(1)—colloquially, the federal “felon-in-possession” stat

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Karen Brenner and William Brenner v. Progressive Hawaii Insurance Corp.

New Orleans, Louisiana personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a insurance law question relating to a car wreck.

This case was filed in the Civil District Court, Orleans Parish, 24-06914 D-12 and was removed to federal court by the Defendant.

Louisiana's direct action insurance law changed significantly in August 2024, generally
eliminating the right to sue an i

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Shelby Welter, et a. v. Detective Janice Wilson, et al.

Fayetteville, Arkansas personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on civil rights violation theories.

Concerned about illegal drug use in the home, Bella Vista Polce officers took three minor children of Shelby Welter, Dean Welter, and Stephanie Hutchins to the Children and Family Advocacy Center for forensic interviews. The three parents sued Detective Janice Wilson1 on be

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R.R., by Next Friend J.R. v. Mineral Wells Independent School District

Fort Worth, Texas personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff on Civil Rights of Handicapped Child Act violation theory.

R.R., a student with learning disabilities, transferred to Mineral Wells
Independent School District (“MWISD”) in the February of his seventh-
grade year. After R.R.’s arrival, a committee reviewed his eligibility for
special education services u

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Jane Doe 1 v. City View Independent school District

Wichita Falls, Texas personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a civil rights violation claim.

Jane Doe attended high school in City View ISD from the fall of 2016
to the spring of 2020.1 Robert Morris was employed as a teacher and coach
at City View ISD while Doe was a student there. In 2016, Morris allegedly
began emotionally and sexually abusing Doe, then a fiftee

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United States of America v. Alexander Jon Ogilvie

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with illegal receipt of a firearm by a person under indictment, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(n).

After the October 2022 shooting, a federal grand jury returned an indictment against Ogilvie, charging him with illegal receipt of a firearm by a person under indictment, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(n). The

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Brian David Hill v. Haylea Workman and Drew Inman

Danville, Virginia pro se Plaintiff without a lawyer filed suit on a civil rights violation thoery seeking injunctive and declaratory relief.

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Lopez Jimenez v. Sanchez Guarneros

Richland, Washington family law lawyers represented the parties in an International Child Abduction Remedies Act case.

The International Child Abduction Remedies Act (ICARA) is a U.S. federal law that implements the
Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, providing a legal framework for the prompt return of children who have been wrongfully removed or r

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Matthew Tucker v. Bonneville Joint School District 93, et al.

Pocatello, Idaho civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a education civil rights theory.

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April Malick, et al. v. Croswell-Lexington District Schools, et al.

Detroit, Michigan personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a civil rights violation theory.

C.M. suffered student-on-student racial harassment while she attended the sixth, seventh,
and ninth grades in the Croswell-Lexington Community Schools District. (She was
homeschooled for eighth grade.) She was mocked, called the n-word and other racial slurs,
threate

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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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