In a December 14 LA Times op ed, Hadsell Stormer Renick & Dai attorney Theresa Zhen and ACLU National Prison Project attorney Eric Balaban assert that reducing the jail population is a “matter of life or death for thousands” and urge Gascón to take action. Zhen...
HSRD Salutes Robert Newman, recipient of the 2020 Loren Miller Legal Service Award!
The award “honors an attorney who has personally engaged in significant work extending legal services to the poor.” https://youtu.be/RtV-a8RgLdw Honoree Robert D. Newman, general counsel for the Western Center on Law & Poverty, is being recognized for his 35 years...
Five Pregnant Women Contract COVID-19 in LA County Jail
The rising rate of pregnant prisoners with COVID-19 in the Los Angeles County jail system reflects the grim COVID-jail statistics overall and highlights the grave risk of overcrowded jail systems in this time of COVID surges in California. As of now, more than 3500...
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...
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...
HSRD Obtains Preliminary Injunction, Stopping Garden Grove from Illegally Leasing 102 Acres to For-Profit Developer
December 17, 2019, Judge Mary Strobel of the Los Angeles Superior Court granted a preliminary injunction preventing the City of Garden Grove from illegally leasing the Willowick Property, currently a municipal golf course, to a for-profit developer until the City...
