Federal Tort Claims Law
 
United States of America v. Hernan Burgos Prada

Cincinnati, Ohio, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1956(h), which provides:

(h) Any person who conspires to commit any offense defined in this section or section 1957 shall be subject to the same penalties as those prescribed for the offense the commission of which was the object of the conspirac

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United States of America v. Shawn M. Thomas

Columbus, Ohio criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with interference with commerce by threat or violence.

AI Overview Federal interference with commerce by threats or violence, most notably under the Hobbs Act (\(18\) U.S.C. \(1951\)), makes it illegal to obstruct, delay, or affect interstate or foreign commerce through robbery or extortion. This includes committ

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Freddie Brewer, et al. v. Alliance Coal, LLC, et al.

Pikeville, Kentucky employment law lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued on a Fair Labor Standards Act violation theory.

AI Overview

The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) covers minimum wage, overtime pay, and child labor standards for most private and public sector employees. It mandates that employees receive at least the federal minimum wage, and overtime pay at a rate of t

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Elaine L. Chao, Secretary of Labor, United States Department of Labor v. Tradesman International, Inc.

Cleveland, Ohio commercial litigation lawyers represented the Defendant resisting paying employees for attending safety training.

Trademan is a skilled labor leasing company.

Federal regulations required it to pay employees to pay employees to attend safety training.

Trademan refused.



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Stephen Benavides v. Harris County, Texas

Houston, Texas, personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff on civil rights violation theories under 42 U.S.c. 1983.

On December 26, 2019, at approximately 7:19 p.m., Deputy Jose Nunez of the Harris County Sheriff’s Office responded to a 911 call reporting a suspected in-progress home invasion. The caller, Sandra Garibay, informed the dispatcher that she had locked herself and her

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Tariq Farooq v. Nucor Business Technology, Inc. and Capgemini America, Inc.

Dallas, Texas, pro se Plaintiff attempted to represent himself without a lawyer on an employment discrimination case.

Farooq’s complaint, which he initially filed in state court and was removed to federal court under 28 U.S.C. § 1441(a) and 28 U.S.C. § 1331, raised claims for hostile work environment, ethnicity discrimination, religious discrimination, retaliation, and wrongful termin

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United States of America v. Kevin LaMarcus Mitchell

Jackson, Mississippi, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with felony possession of a firearm.

his case is about whether the Second Amendment protects a habitual marijuana user from being permanently dispossessed of a firearm based on our Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation. On November 28, 2023, Kevin LaMarcus Mitchell was charged with possession o

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State of Wisconsin v. Morgan Geyser

Waukesha, Wisconsin criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attemped second-degree homicide.

On May 31, 2014, twelve-year-old Morgan Geyser, with the aid of twelve-year-oldAnissa Weier, repeatedly stabbed her friend, the twelve-year-old victim in this case. Geyser’s attack brought the victim to the brink of death, but she very fortunately survived. As a

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Juliana Swink v. Souothern Health Partners, Inc., et al.

Greensboro, North Carolina personal injury lawyer represents the Plaintiff on medical malpractice, wrongful death and civil rights claims.

David Ray Gsunter was diagnosed with a heart condition shortly after birth. At fifteen years old, to address his heart condition, Gunter underwent open-heart surgery to replace his aortic valve with a mechanical heart valve (“MHV”).
At this t

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Estate of Devine v. The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a medical malpractice wrongful death theory.

On May 10, 2023, Appellees filed a wrongful death and survival action against Appellant, in connection with a biopsy that Gabriella underwent as part of her treatment for Acute Myelogenous Lukemia, which Appellees allege caused Gabriella's death. Appellees

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United States of America v. David Dupree

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant seeking compassionate release under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i).

In 2009, after a jury trial in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, Dupree was convicted of armed bank robbery, use of a firearm during a crime of violence, and conspiracy to commit robbery. The District Court s

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United States of America .v Antonio Bishop

Scranton, Pennsylvania, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempting to provide contraband of an inmate.

Antonio Bishop was convicted of both attempting to provide contraband to a federal inmate and attempting to obtain contraband by a federal inmate. On appeal, he argues that the District Court committed reversible error by not granting a mistrial when the pr

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In re: Boy Scouts of America, et al., Debtors

Wilmington, Delaware, bankruptcy lawyers represented the parties.

The Coalition of Abused Scouts for Justice (the “Coalition”), an ad hoc group of sexual abuse tort claimants who participated in the bankruptcy of the Boy Scouts of America and Delaware BSA, LLC (the “Debtors”), appeals the District Court’s order affirming the Bankruptcy Court’s order denying the Coalition’s r

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United States of America v. Adam Gomez

Syracuse, New York, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of firearm with obliterated serial number.

AI Overview

Possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number is illegal under federal and state laws, though some federal challenges are ongoing.

Generally, the law prohibits knowingly possessing, receiving, or transporting a f

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Jason R. Nelson v. Navistar, Inc., et al.

Boston, Massachusetts personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiffs who sued on product liability theories.

AI Overview

Massachusetts product liability law holds manufacturers, distributors, and sellers strictly liable for injuries caused by defective products, meaning you don't need to prove negligence.

You can file a claim for a product that has a design defect, ma

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Colleen M. Strapponi and Mark Strapponi v. Town of Blackstone, et al.

Worcester, Massachusetts personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff on civil rights violation theories.

This case was filed in the Worcester Superior Court, 2485CV01203 and was removed to federal court by the Defendants.

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United States of America v. Joshua Deprez

Portland, Maine, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with influencing, impeding, or retailiating against a federal official by threatening or injury.

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Amy Moore, et al. v. Howard Rubin

Brooklyn, New York, personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendant on Racketeering (RICO) Act violation theories.

Howard Rubin, a successful bond trader, recruited women from around the country to travel to New York and engage in sadomasochism with him in exchange for money. Rubin employed assistants, whom he paid up to $15,000 per month, to lure women with promi

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Janelle Quinn v. Columbia County School District

August, Georgia, civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a education civil rights violation theory.

Quinn filed this suit in April 2022. In her complaint, she set
out two claims: racial discrimination under Title VI (“Count One”),
and retaliation under Title VI (“Count Two”). Importantly, Count
One was brought on behalf of D.J.Q. and Count Two was brought

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Stacy Hovan v. Metroploitan Life Insurance Company

Miami, Florida, employment law lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued on a an ERISA law theory.

Stacy Hovan sued Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (“MetLife”) under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act
of 1974 (“ERISA”), challenging MetLife’s termination of her long- term disability benefit.

Hovan was employed as a commercial litigator with
Troutman

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Estate of Darryl Boyd v. City of Buffalo, et al.

Buffalo, New York personal injury lawyerS represented the Plaintiff who sued on a civil rights violation theory.

Plaintiffs Darryl Boyd and John Walker, Jr. each spent over twenty years in prison for the 1976 murder of William Crawford. In August 2021, the New York Supreme Court in Erie County vacated the convictions of both men. Plaintiffs then sued the County of Erie (the "County"), the

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Jarrin Jackson v. Kelly Greenough; M. John Kane IV and Gentner Drummond

Tulsa, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant who sued the judge and lawyers in a state court action that was dismissed.

Mr. Jackson is a party in state tort proceedings in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Dissatisfied with the Tulsa County District Court’s resolution of those proceedings, he brought three actions in the Northern District of Oklahoma, naming as defendants
vario

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United States of America v. Todd Harold Cooper

Salt Lake City, Utah, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with armed bank robbery.

In 2003, a jury convicted Cooper of armed bank robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113. At sentencing, the government sought a life sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 3559(c), the three strikes provision. Relevant here, § 3559(c) mandates a life
sentence if the defendant “is convicte

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United States of America v. Dennis Hebert

Muskogee, Oklahoma, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with aggravated sexual abuse in Indian country.

Under the General Crimes Act, “the general laws of the United States as to the punishment of offenses committed in any place within the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States . . . shall extend to the Indian country.” 18 U.S.C. § 1152. This statu

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United States of America v. Jason Pete Roper

Albuquerque, New Mexico, criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with three counts of Hobbs Act robbery, 18 U.S.C. 1951.

On August 14, August 15, and September 8, 2022—while he was completing a
term of supervised release imposed for a previous federal conviction—Roper robbed
three Ross Dress For Less stores, stealing a total of approximately $1,800. A few

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