Representative Cases

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• State v. LaMar, No. 94-CR-136 (Ohio Crim. Ct.) (representing Keith LaMar, an innocent man on death row who is scheduled to be executed in January 2026, in an effort to prove his innocence based on newly discovered evidence).

 

• Linton v. Zorn, 135 F. 4th 19 (2d Cir. 2025) (won reversal of a grant of summary judgment based on qualified immunity to a police officer who permanently injured a protester by twisting her arm behind her back while the protester was engaging in passive resistance during a sit-in the Vermont statehouse, establishing that the force used against Ms. Linton violates the Fourth Amendment, that Amnesty America v. Town of West Hartford, 361 F.3d 113 (2d Cir. 2004), had clearly established that the use of force violated the constitution, and that denials of summary judgment clearly establish law for purposes of qualified immunity as a matter of law).

 

• Urban Justice Center v. City of New York, No. 24-CV-8221 (S.D.N.Y) (secured a stipulated temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction limiting the manner in which NYC can conduct homeless sweeps).

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• Zahaf v. New York, No. 22-CV-291, 2024 WL 4362313 (W.D.N.Y. Sept. 30, 2024) (defeated a motion to dismiss in the case of an incarcerated person driven to attempt suicide by the deliberate indifference and intentional discrimination of prison guards and supervisors, establishing that Plaintiff had adequately alleged deliberate indifference to Plaintiff’s risk of suicide by all Defendants—including high level, supervisory officials such as the Commissioner of the New York State Department of Corrections—and racial animus such that a direct comparator was not required to proceed on equal protection and Title VII claims).

 

• Bryceland v. City of New York, No. 23-CV-6354 (S.D.N.Y.) (secured $415,000 in a judgment and attorneys’ fees for a client who was assaulted by another incarcerated person while detained on Rikers Island, suffering two orbital fractures, among other injuries).

 

• Foster v. City of New York, No. 23-CV-2861 (S.D.N.Y.) (secured a $400,000 settlement for a client who was denied adequate medical care while incarcerated on Rikers Island, resulting in an urgent gallbladder removal).

 

• Miller v. City of New York, No. 23-CV-65 (E.D.N.Y.) (representing a putative class of all drivers who were unlawfully targeted for a ride-hail ticketing scheme based on their race, in violation of equal protection laws, and issued excessive fines, in violation of the Eighth Amendment).

 

• Schulte v. Warden of MDC, No. 22-CV-766 (E.D.N.Y.) (represented the whistleblower who leaked the largest trove of classified CIA documents in history in a habeas corpus proceeding challenging his confinement under Special Administrative Measures (“SAMs”)—the most extreme form of solitary confinement in the world).

 

• Hamilton v. Vannoy, No. 17-CV-194 (M.D. La.) (represented every person on death row at Louisiana State Penitentiary (“Angola”) in a class action challenging the legality of holding them in permanent solitary confinement, and reaching a settlement that won them communal recreation time, meals, religious services, graduated educational programs, and more).

 

• Scott v. Quay, No. 19-CV-1075 (E.D.N.Y.) (initiated a class-action lawsuit representing everyone incarcerated at the Metropolitan Detention Center (“MDC”) over the conditions of confinement during a polar vortex during in the winter of 2019, leading to a nearly $11 million settlement).

 

• Stahl v. Bureau of Prisons, No. 19-CV-4142 (E.D.N.Y.) (initiated a Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) lawsuit representing journalist Aviva Stahl, ultimately obtaining—for the first time ever—video of Bureau of Prisons (“BOP”) employees force feeding incarcerated people who were attempting to engage in peaceful hunger strikes).

 

• State v. Burton, No. 7009/89 (Bronx Sup.) (as a clinic intern at the Innocence Project, successfully assisted with the final push in exonerating Huwe Burton, who was wrongfully convicted of the 1989 murder of his own mother, spending over 19 years in prison).

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