Representative Matters

• Substantial settlement for client campus director dismissed from his position, where competitor for director’s position manufactured false allegations that campus director sexually harassed students.
• Substantial settlement for client sexually assaulted employee, where one employee of Bangalore subsidiary of Silicon Valley software company sexually assaulted client employee, and CEO of Silicon Valley parent company circulated rumor that sexual contact was consensual. Corporate veil pierced to reach Silicon Valley parent company.
• Substantial settlement for client sexually molested employee where director of major charity admitted that he had hypnotized and touched female employees without their consent, for purportedly therapeutic purpose.
• Substantial settlement for arrestee client, where county jail intake nurse omitted hands-on medical examination of gravely ill innocent arrestee, then falsified medical intake screening report to reflect that the examination had been performed, resulting in nine hours of incarceration before arrestee transported to hospital.
• Jury verdict and half million dollar attorney’s fee award where police were granted homeowner’s consent to enter home, then failed to depart after consent was withdrawn.
• Substantial veil piercing settlement with wealthy individuals who controlled aviation shell corporation, then abandoned shell corporation and allowed default judgment to be entered against it in breach of contract case.
• Substantial settlement in bad faith case against Swiss insurer, litigated in United States District Court.
• Where suit was filed in United States District Court against Australia-based international cryptocurrency company and its principals, Attorney Grayson, representing defendants, obtained dismissal on inconvenient forum grounds with instruction that any future action arising from this nexus of fact be filed in the Supreme Court of Queensland, Australia. No follow-on suit was filed.
• Obtained reversal of state court criminal conviction for misuse of federal grant funds, on ground that state district attorney’s prosecution violated Supremacy Clause of United States Constitution by interfering with federal Department of Health and Human Services administration of its grant program.
• Obtained defense jury verdict for Berkeley, California landlord on ground that plaintiff tenants’ hands were unclean because they defrauded federal government by abusing federal housing subsidy.
• Prevailed in federal constitutional suit against San Francisco Unified School District where School District attempted to force Chinese immigrant child to attend Cantonese-language instruction Chinese Education Center elementary school in Chinatown, rather than English-language instruction neighborhood elementary school.
• San Francisco ordinance, effectively converting certain modest hotels into homeless shelters, declared violative of Taking Clause of United States Constitution.