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OAKLAND, CA (August 1, 2016) — Civil rights law firm Haddad & Sherwin LLP announced today that they have filed a federal civil rights lawsuit for Stanislav Petrov stemming from his widely-reported beating by Alameda County deputies on November 12, 2015. The incident started with a vehicle pursuit across the…
The front page of this past Sunday’s San Francisco Chronicle (December 28, 2014) bore the headline, “Civil Rights Leaders Seek More Black Prosecutors.” The premise of the article is that if more prosecutors were Black, more police officers who illegally kill people would be prosecuted. While increasing the racial diversity of our nation’s…
SACRAMENTO, CA (March 26, 2014) — Civil rights law firm Haddad & Sherwin announced today that it has filed a federal civil rights and wrongful death lawsuit on behalf of Kendall Walker’s parents and young son. On July 18, 2013, officers from the Vacaville Police Department fired multiple shots killing…
“Nobody can dispute the fact that the law is established that you can’t go blowing [away] a police officer making an arrest.” That’s what our federal court judge said when she denied the defense of qualified immunity to the rookie officers who shot and killed our client, Oakland Police Officer…
Police officers undoubtedly have a dangerous job. We have represented several officers who were injured or killed in the course of their job. How dangerous is it? Based on the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, Forbes lists the top ten most dangerous jobs in America: 1. Logging workers 2. Fishers and related…
As the only non-lawyer working in our office every day, I’ve sometimes felt like I’ve awoken in another country, one where everyone else fluently speaks a language I only speak well enough to order a coffee or to ask someone for directions to the nearest museum. Thankfully, this language gap…
After over six weeks of trial, we got a jury verdict today in favor of our client, Bret Cornell, a rookie off-duty San Francisco cop who was falsely arrested for jogging in Golden Gate Park. The case was very hard fought, because San Francisco refused to acknowledge that their officers had absolutely…
We are in trial in San Francisco right now for our client, an off-duty rookie San Francisco police officer who was wrongfully detained, arrested, and held at gunpoint by other San Francico police officers while he was going for a jog after work in Golden Gate Park. When the defendant…
Last week I was in Santa Rosa teaching a seminar about “qualified immunity” to a roomful of lawyers and law enforcement officers. I like doing these seminars, because it gives me the chance to talk to police officers and lawyers who defend them in a friendly, educational setting. Qualified immunity…
Welcome to our new blog at HaddadandSherwin.comJulia Sherwin and I wanted to have a place where we could share our thoughts about current civil rights issues in our community. We will also be inviting members of our team to share their own personal perspectives – about civil rights issues, and…