Pre-lawsuit hurdle: the government claim
Before filing a lawsuit for violations of California law, a person injured by law-enforcement officers or jail correctio...
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Helm Law Office, PC fights for people whose civil rights have been violated “under color of law” by police officers, sheriff’s deputies, correctional officers, and the counties, cities, and other public and private entities that employ them.
After suffering injury at the hands of law enforcement, the injured–or, too often, their survivors–often simply want to find out what happened to them or their loved one. Sadly, law-enforcement agencies often hide these facts, refusing victims’ and survivors’ requests for information, claiming that interminable “ongoing investigations” prevent them from releasing information about what happened.
Learn MoreBefore filing a lawsuit for violations of California law, a person injured by law-enforcement officers or jail correctio...
READ MORE42 U.S.C. section 1983 allows police-misconduct victims to hold wrongdoing officers, their supervisors, and employers ac...
READ MOREPolice uses of force fall on a continuum that proceeds from "command presence," to going “hands-on” with a person vi...
READ MOREThe Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment protects a pretrial detainee from the use of excessive force that amo...
READ MOREThe Fourteenth Amendment provides pretrial detainees with the right to be protected from attack by other inmates while t...
READ MORETo succeed at trial, the victim must present evidence to the jury proving the unreasonableness of the search given all o...
READ MOREInteractions with police officers may be thought of on a continuum, from consensual encounters to a detention, and then ...
READ MOREPeople have the right under California law to be protected from bodily restraint. A false-imprisonment claim requires ...
READ MOREIn addition to bringing their deceased loved one’s claims that “survived” death, as well as wrongful-death claims,...
READ MOREUnder certain facts, a police supervisor may be liable for the violation of a person's federal civil rights, where the s...
READ MOREUnder Section 1983, a government entity—such as a city or county—cannot be held indirectly responsible for its offic...
READ MOREA total shield to section 1983 liability, qualified immunity is a late twentieth-century creation, an example of conserv...
READ MOREIn 2014, the Ninth Circuit recognized that the ADA applies to arrests under two theories. Sheehan v. City & Count...
READ MOREPolice-misconduct victims may bring negligence claims against officers. If a jury finds that the officers were neglige...
READ MOREA wrongful-death claim arises out of an officer’s negligence or “wrongful act.” Cal. Civ. Proc. Code § 377.60....
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