Civil Rights

Intoxicated man, unarmed, provokes police with broomsticks and rocks. Nonlethal-force options were deployed, but one officer ends up shooting him.

Prisoner misclassified as gang member is placed in more restrictive housing unit.

Plaintiffs claimed they were falsely arrested during a large-scale police search in their neighborhood. 

Young African-American with knives is tasered by one officer and shot by another after family calls police because he is threatening to kill himself.

Deputy sheriff works in the investigation unit for many years, is then told he's going back on patrol duty. He claims discrimination.

Inmate with scoliosis suffers chronic back pain and prison doctors don't manage his pain well.

Developer of yoga method said to sexually harass students, fires his own lawyer when she tries to stop him.

Undercover police officers said to use excessive force in arrest.  Defense verdict.  

Plaintiff husband says his wife and a Burbank police officer conspired to have him arrested and then tried to extort money from him.

An unarmed robbery suspect is shot by a Culver City police officer.  Other officers on the scene did not perceive the suspect as a threat. $8.8 million awarded by Federal jury.  

A 15-year-old boy playing cops and robbers on his bicycle with friends in Palmdale was shot by a sheriff's deputy after he allegedly pointed the toy gun at two officers. 

13-year-old boy with pellet gun is shot by LAPD officer on street after dark.  Circumstances of shooting are disputed.  Quadriplegia. $19.2 million net after contributory negligence. 

Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies, in an unmarked car, pursued plaintiffs' decedent as a DUI/robbery suspect. When decedent's car crashed, he was surrounded by multiple sheriff's cars. Decedent backed his vehicle into a sheriff's car and deputies opened fire, killing him.