Important or Memorable Cases Attorney in San Francisco, California
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our law practice includes a substantial
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number of cases in the civil rights and
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civil liberties areas that spring from
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the Bill of Rights you know some of my
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colleagues focused on First Amendment
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litigation some of the cases that we’ve
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had recently that have been in the news
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include our landmark lawsuit against the
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city of San Jose involving the cities
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failure to properly handle a riot
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situation that effectively caused people
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of a certain political persuasion to be
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directed into a riot causing significant
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harm that case was appealed to the Ninth
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Circuit and we made some significant new
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law expanding the rights of citizens who
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are injured in these types of situations
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and holding the government to a higher
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standard and I’m very proud of that case
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it’s called Hernandez versus San Jose
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another case in the Civil Rights area
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involved a person of my faith the Sikh
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faith who was discriminated against in
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applying for a job with the state of
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California as a prison guard and through
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four years of litigation we challenged
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California’s Attorney General and the
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prison’s department in California and we
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won a landmark settlement in that case
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which not only gave the client hundreds
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of thousands of dollars in recovery but
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also he got employed by the state of
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California and the state has changed its
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practices in response to our lawsuit so
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those are the types of cases that we
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bring that help not just the individual
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client but also ensure that in the
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future citizens do not have their civil
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rights impaired by wrongful conduct of
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the government
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San Francisco, CA litigation attorney Harmeet K. Dhillon talks about two memorable civil rights cases.
