ATLANTA, GA- In 2014, Fulton County Jail held hundreds of people beyond their scheduled release date– a direct violation of their constitutional rights– after a statewide criminal database went offline. Oswald Thompson, one of those formerly incarcerated individuals, was arrested for speeding and posted bond the next day yet spent five days in jail. He, like […]
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OCTOBER 8, 2021— This afternoon, we filed two lawsuits against suspended Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill. Both of our clients were victims of Sheriff Hill and his officers’ assault and abuses, which resulted in Hill being twice federally indicted for civil rights violations. These lawsuits join several prior lawsuits filed against Hill for his use of the restraint
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Michael J. Eshman Trial Attorney Eshman Begnaud, LLC Mediator Miles Mediation & Arbitration Board Member Georgia Latino Law Foundation ATLANTA, GEORGIA – Today marks one year since I joined the panel at Miles Mediation & Arbitration as a neutral. I joined with the specific purpose of learning more about language barriers in ADR from the perspective of a
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We’ve settled this lawsuit! Click to learn more about this $533k settlement. DECATUR, GEORGIA – On Friday, June 11, 2021, Eshman Begnaud, in partnership with the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund (“MALDEF”), sued for the cruelty and abuse that the Irwin County Detention Center (“ICDC”) inflicted on a 26-year-old transgender immigrant. ICDC detained our client, P.R.,
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In 2019, Georgia correctional officers falsely accused Lily Engleman of smuggling contraband to an incarcerated individual– without any evidence. Those investigators waited until this past November to reveal the video footage and, “of course, it showed no such thing”. The charges were finally dropped, and on May 10, 2021, we filed a federal civil rights
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On March 24, Mark Begnaud and Michael Eshman filed a petition for certiorari in Quinette v. Reed et al., Doc. 20-1336, asking the U.S. Supreme Court to abolish or revisit the doctrine of qualified immunity, the judge-made doctrine that protects government officials from financial liability when they violate a person’s constitutional rights. In the case, our client
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We’ve settled this lawsuit! Click to learn more about this $533k settlement. OCILLA, IRWIN COUNTY, GA—A transgender asylum seeker held in solitary confinement for six months solely because of his gender identity is suing the federal government. MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) and Eshman Begnaud filed the suit on behalf of an
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AJC Hundreds held too long at Fulton County jail may join federal lawsuit A federal judge granted class action status for a group of inmates in the Fulton County jail who were detained after they should have been released. Law.com Judge Won’t Toss Class Action by Fulton Jail Inmates Denied a Timely Release | Daily
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