Tuesday May 1, 2018, HSR attorneys Josh Piovia-Scott, Dan Stormer, and Shaleen Shanbhag will go to trial in federal court in Los Angeles, representing the family of Charly "Africa" Keunang, a homeless African man shot by the LAPD in March 2015. In the highly controversial shooting, bystander and body-cam footage show that police escalated conflict in the moments preceding Keunang's death.
HSR Attorney Dan Stormer Argues Before Ninth Circuit in Landmark Case, Dogan v. Barak
On April 12, 2018, Dan Stormer argued before the Ninth Circuit court of appeals in the landmark case Dogan v. Barak. In Dogan, the surviving parents of Furkan Dogan--an 18-year old American humanitarian activist murdered by the Israeli military during its 2010 attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla--seek to hold to account then-Minister of Defense Ehud Barak for these violations of international human rights. Attorneys for Defendant Barak and the U.S. Government urged the court to close its doors to Furkan's parents by claiming that foreign government officials are immune for all "official acts," while Dan Stormer highlighted Ninth Circuit precedent establishing that torture and extrajudicial killing can never be official acts. The panel, consisting of Judges Carlos Bea, Mary Murguia, and Stanley Bastian, will likely issue its Opinion in the coming months.
Ninth Circuit argument, 4-12-18:
https://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/media/view_video.php?pk_vid=0000013526
Media:
Courthouse News: https://www.courthousenews.com/israeli-officials-immunity-for-us-citizens-killing-debated-at-ninth-circuit/Knock-LA: https://knock-la.com/us-9th-circuit-court-to-hear-case-of-human-rights-abuses-committed-by-former-israeli-prime-minister-672897b8c5a6Daily Journal: Daily Journal, 4-13-18, Dogan v. Barak.PDFPasadena Now: https://www.pasadenanow.com/main/pasadenas-ninth-circuit-hears-case-of-alleged-human-rights-abuses-by-former-israeli-prime-minister/#.WuOSiSIkvct
Hadsell Stormer Renick and Co-Counsel from Law Offices of C. Joe Sayas Jr. Secure $2 Million Settlement in 2015 Long Beach Police Killing of Mentally Ill Man
The December 5, 2017 settlement in the killing of Mharloun Saycon, a mentally ill Fililpino man, is among the largest in Long Beach history for a police brutality case.
Ninth Circuit Appeal Scheduled in HSR Lawsuit Against Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak for Death of American Citizen in Humanitarian Flotilla Raid
HSR's landmark appeal before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has been scheduled for April 12, 2018, at 9:00 A.M. in Courtroom 3 at 125 S. Grand Ave., Pasadena, CA 91105. Doğan v. Barak tests the protections claimed by former foreign officials against a growing international demand for accountability in the face of gross abuses of human rights. The case of Doğan v. Barak seeks to hold former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak accountable for his responsibility, as defense minister, in the unlawful death of humanitarian and American citizen Furkan Doğan.
