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…
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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…
Here is the Settlement Agreement of the Napa Police Department’s reforms agreed as a result of Kayleigh’s lawsuit. These reforms will move the Napa Police Department to a nationally prominent role in protecting children from child abuse and neglect…
United States government report on preventing child abuse and neglect…
Here is the final state court Complaint against the City and County of Napa….
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…