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Cover image: Illustration When an officer uses force, can a family sue only for intentional wrongdoing, or can they also argue the officer was careless? Las Vegas Metro's position in a pending case would close the second option. In K.C. v. LVMPD, Metro officers shot and killed Keith Childress Jr. on December 31, 2015, believing he had a gun. He was holding a black phone. After the first shots, officers fired a second volley while he lay on the ground, and a police dog bit him

Cover image: Illustration On October 14, 2026, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the federal appeals court that covers Nevada, ruled that California likely cannot require federal officers to wear visible identification. Our firm was not involved in this case. What the California law said Section 10 of California's "No Vigilantes Act" required non-uniformed law enforcement officers, including federal officers, to visibly display their agency and a name or badge

On October 22, 2026, Breeden & Associates filed a petition for a writ of mandamus in the Nevada Supreme Court (Docket No. 93497) on behalf of Julia France and Skyler Wilson. They are the adult children of Seth S. Wilson, who was shot and killed by two Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officers on June 20, 2024. The family's lawsuit alleges that Mr. Wilson was lowering an unloaded rifle, as officers had ordered, when they opened fire. These are allegations, and the case

On July 14, 2026, a divided Ninth Circuit panel ruled that an Elko police officer cannot be sued for damages over baton strikes during a November 2022 arrest. Our firm was not involved in this case, Smith v. Olvera. According to the court, the man led police on a six-minute chase at night that ended in a crash. Once he was out of his truck, the officer struck him repeatedly with a baton, breaking his arm. The court accepted, for purposes of the ruling, that he was also hit in

Kirstin "Blaise" Lobato has received a $29.5 million settlement from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. In December 2024, a federal jury found that two Metro detectives fabricated evidence against her in a 2001 murder case and awarded her $34 million. Metro began an appeal, and the case settled through mediation during that appeal. The settlement was on the September 9, 2026 agenda of Metro's Committee on Fiscal Affairs, and her attorney says it was approved and ha

On September 21, 2026, our office filed a civil rights lawsuit for Brian Daugherty, a man held at High Desert State Prison. It names the State of Nevada (Nevada Department of Corrections) and five prison medical providers and officials. The case, Daugherty v. State of Nevada ex rel. Nevada Department of Corrections, No. A-26-957308-C, is pending in the Eighth Judicial District Court in Clark County. What the lawsuit alleges Mr. Daugherty has insulin-dependent diabetes. The co

On June 20, 2025, Adam J. Breeden of NevadaCivilRights.com was part of a legal team which obtained a $4.3 million dollar verdict against two former Nevada Department of Corrections medical employees in an 8th Amendment deliberate indifference/denial of medical care case.

NevadaCivilRights.com and attorney Adam Breeden in January of 2025 filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the Nye County Sheriff's Dep

Twitter, formally known as X, filed a lawsuit against Media Matters on Monday, November 20th, 2023. This was in response to Media...

Breeden & Associates has filed a civil rights lawsuit against Clark County Code Enforcement and Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department...

A recent civil rights lawsuit alleges that inmates participating in a Department of Corrections program to work as firefighters were...

In February of 2023 the State of Nevada settled a civil rights lawsuit against it for $250,000. Plaintiff alleged her civil rights were...

On December 29, 2022 the Nevada Supreme Court issued its most important civil rights case in its history, Mack v. Williams, 138 Nev....