On April 13, 2015, the decedent, Lucky Phounsy, experienced a mental health crisis and called 9-1-1 for help. San Diego County Sheriff's Deputies responded to Mr. Phounsy's call. During the altercation between Mr. Phounsy and the deputies, Mr. Phounsy was tased multiple times, punched, handcuffed, put in maximum restraints, strapped to a gurney, and had pressure applied to his head and torso. Mr. ... More...   $0 (09-09-2022 - CA)

Concord, New Hampshire civil rights lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendants for violating his civil rights in various ways.

Stephen DiChiara brings this action against the Town of Salem and the State of New Hampshire.[1] In his complaint, DiChiara advances a variety of claims under the United States Constitution, the New Hampshire Constitution, and New Hampshire common law. He s... More...   $0 (08-30-2022 - nh)

Nashville, Tennessee civil rights lawyer represented Plaintiffs, who sued Defendants claiming excessive use of force.

On August 21, 2018, around 9:15 p.m., Fox and Austin were dispatched to the
Campbells’ residence to conduct a welfare check after a 9-1-1 dispatcher received two hang-up
calls from a phone located on the property. They arrived at the Campbells’ home around 9:39... More...   $0 (08-29-2022 - TN)

Salt Lake City, Utah personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendants claiming that they violated his civil rights.


Plaintiff Jeff Hall sues Salt Lake Police Department Officers Val Brown and Kevin Murray and the City of Salt Lake, asserting that Officers Brown and Murray deprived him “of his rights protected under the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendments to th... More...   $0 (08-29-2022 - UT)

Montgomery, Alabama civil litigation lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendants on negligence and intentional bad faith.


Ashley Page Harris appeals from the dismissal of her claims against several people involved with the nurse anesthesia program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Nursing School ("the nursing school"). According to Harris's complaint, she was a student... More...   $0 (08-19-2022 - AL)

Grand Rapids, Michigan civil rights lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant on a 1983 claim of excessive use of force.

Joseph Meadows claims that officers used excessive force to
detain him one night during a traffic stop. Officer Steve Dumond began pursuing Meadows after
he passed Dumond on the highway while traveling nearly ninety miles per hour. During the
subsequen... More...   $0 (08-18-2022 - MI)

Laredo, Texas civil rights lawyers represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendants claiming that they violated her First Amendment Rights.

If the First Amendment means anything, it surely means that a citizen
journalist has the right to ask a public official a question, without fear of being
imprisoned. Yet that is exactly what happened here: Priscilla Villarreal was
put in jail fo... More...   $0 (08-12-2022 - TX)

Tulsa, Oklahoma civil rights lawyers represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendants on violation of the due process and equal protection clauses of the Fourth Amendment.


Plaintiff brings claims against Defendants for violations of the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution via 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Pl.'s First Am. Compl. ¶ 1, June... More...   $0 (08-04-2022 - OK)

Indianapolis, Indiana personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendants on a negligence theory.

[¶1] An inmate at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City filed a negligence claim against the Marion County Sheriff, in his official capacity, and the Marion County Sheriff's Department (collectively the Sheriff's Department) after he was injured while trying to enter a tran... More...   $0 (08-04-2022 - IN)

Springfield, Massachusetts personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a corporate negligence theory.


The plaintiff brought suit against the Roman Catholic Bishop of Springfield, a corporation sole (Roman Catholic Bishop of Springfield), and church officials for the sexual abuse by church leadership that he allegedly endured as a child in the 1960s and for the... More...   $0 (07-28-2022 - MA)

Salt Lake City, Utah civil rights lawyers represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a prisoner civil rights violation wrongful death theory.

Cynthia Stella, individually and on behalf of The Estate of Heather Miller, deceased, sued Davis County Utah on a 1983 prisoner civil rights theory claiming that Heather Miller died as a direct result of deliberate indifference.


Ms. ... More...   $0 (07-26-2022 - UT)

Lexington, Kentucky civil rights lawyers represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendants on a 1983 civil rights violation theory.

The University of Kentucky investigated two dentistry
professors for entering false data about whether they, or their students, had performed services
for patients at a university clinic and whether they, or the clinic, should be paid for those
services.... More...   $0 (07-25-2022 - KY)

Pensacola, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with second-degree murder.


Bryan Francis Swift was charged with second-degree murder with a weapon for the fatal stabbing of Adam Parker. Swift sought immunity from prosecution under section 776.032, Florida Statutes. After conducting an evidentiary hearing, the trial court found that Swift was not entitled to ... More...   $0 (07-20-2022 - FL)

Tulsa, Oklahoma personal injury lawyers represented Plaintiffs, who sued Defendants on prisoner civil rights violation theories under 42 U.S.C. 1983 claiming that Mitchell Lee Godsey, age 59, died in the Tulsa County jail as a direct result of deliberate indifference including medical negligence and understaffing.

Godsey died less than 32 hours after being booked in to the jail for failin... More...   $0 (07-06-2022 - OK)

Salt Lake City, Utah civil litigation lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued the State of Utah on a regulatory taking theory.


In March 2021, Utah enacted Senate Bill 189, the “Tobacco Retailer Amendments.” As relevant here, Senate Bill 189 amended Utah Code §§ 10-8-041.6 and 17-50-33 to prohibit the operation of a “Retail tobacco specialty business” within “1,000 feet of ... More...   $0 (06-28-2022 - UT)

New Orleans, Louisiana personal injury lawyers represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendants on civil rights violation theories under 42 U.S.C. 1983.

Johnny Traweek, a former Louisiana state prisoner, was detained
twenty days beyond his release date. Among other defendants, Traweek sued
James LeBlanc, Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and
Corrections (DPSC), ... More...   $0 (06-28-2022 - LA)