Pasadena Civil Rights Blog
HSRD Partners Cornelia Dai, Barbara Hadsell, Randy Renick and Dan Stormer Honored as 2020 Lawdragon Leading Plaintiff Employment Lawyers
These four partners are among the 500 attorneys nationwide/nationally chosen for their outstanding work in fighting for and ensuring workers’ rights. It is truly an exceptional honor because it comes primarily from peer review. Barbara, Cornelia, Randy, and Dan were...
U.S. Supreme Court Denies Idaho’s Petition for Review of Decision Ordering Gender Confirmation Surgery for Transgender Prisoner
On October 13, 2020, the United States Supreme Court denied Idaho’s request to review a federal district court decision ordering Idaho to provide medically necessary gender confirmation surgery to Adree Edmo, a transgender woman prisoner. The Supreme Court’s decision...
Hadsell Stormer Renick & Dai Attorneys Represent Benjamin Montemayor, a Protestor Brutally Shot in the Groin by the LAPD. Video Footage of the Vicious Incident was Released September 18th.
Montemayor’s attorney Dan Stormer commented on the footage, “In some ways, it’s even worse than we thought. It’s not often you see something like this that is so cut and dried, but it’s pretty brutal.” The LAPD is conducting internal investigations into this incident...
Online Listings Violate Short-Term Rental Law – Hadsell Stormer Renick & Dai Attorneys Highlight AirBnB’s Failure to Comply With the Ordinance
In December 2018, the City of Los Angeles enacted the “Home Sharing Ordinance,” which allows homeowners to rent their homes on a short-term basis within specific guidelines. The law, which was designed to mitigate the city’s housing crisis, allows hosts to register...
HSRD Attorneys Represent a Black Family in a Racial Profiling Claim Against Nike – Parents Were Wrongfully Accused of Shoplifting
Attorneys Dan Stormer and David Washington of Hadsell Stormer Renick & Dai LLP filed the claim July 4th in Los Angeles federal court on behalf of clients Joel Stallworth, TaMiya Dickerson and their young son. The suit names Nike Corporation and former Nike store...
HSRD Attorney Dan Stormer Says Trump Administration’s Visa Plan Will Favor the “Silicon Valley People”
Trump’s June 22nd executive order, which extends through the end of 2020, suspends many temporary work visas, giving visa access only to “specialty occupations.” Dan Stormer says the foreign workers who will benefit from the changes are “the Silicon Valley people, the...
Supreme Court Upholds Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Program
On Thursday, June 18, 2020, the Supreme Court held that the manner in which the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rescinded the DACA program was unlawful. This means that, for the time being, DACA survives and DACA recipients can continue to renew their DACA...
Supreme Court Denies the State of Idaho’s Request to Delay Transgender Prisoner’s Medically Necessary Surgery
On Thursday, May 21, 2020, the Supreme Court rejected the State of Idaho’s attempt to delay Adree Edmo’s medically necessary gender confirmation surgery, which is currently scheduled for July 2020. This ruling follows a series of legal victories for Ms. Edmo in the...
Justice-LA COVID-19 Response Team Files Emergency Class Action Lawsuit Against Los Angeles County and Sheriffs Department Officials for Failing to Protect the Lives of People in LA County Jail
HSRD attorney Dan Stormer, who represents the Youth Justice Coalition, Dignity and Power Now, and nine inmates named as plaintiffs in the suit said, "Prisoners are going to die at an incredible rate unless something is done to address these horrible conditions." For...
Advocates Sue LAPD Officer Who Suffocated Blind 63-Year-Old African American Man Strapped to Hospital Gurney
April 1, 2020, lawyers from the Civil Rights law firms Hadsell Stormer Renick & Dai and Law Office of Matthew Strugar sued the Los Angeles Police Department and its officers for arresting, beating, and suffocating Michael Moore, a 63-year-old legally blind African...
