Attorney Lisa Daugaard's Legal Cases

Criminal defense

State v. Johnson

Jun 30, 2005

OUTCOME: defense won in trial court, affirmed on appeal

Selective enforcement challenge to racial discrimination in Seattle drug arrests. Regarded as leading active case in the nation in this area. In unpublished opinion, Division One of the Court of Appeal ... s affirmed trial court judge Richard Jones's order requiring discovery in support of defendant's selective enforcement claim, making this the first known case since US Supreme Court decision U.S. v. Armstrong in 1996 to affirm a trial court's grant of discovery in a selective enforcement case.

Employment and labor

Archie v. Grand Central Partnership

Dec 31, 1996

OUTCOME: plaintiffs won permanent injunction & damages

Coordinated legal team representing plaintiffs in class action against midtown Manhattan business improvement district that paid homeless people $1.00 hour to bully other homeless people out of midtown ... , "housing" them in metal folding chairs in a drop in shelter and offering them a nominal chance to progress to a minimum wage staff position, which most never achieved. Fair Labor Standards Act claims were granted by district court judge and damages awarded.

Constitutional

Haitian Centers Council v. McNary; Haitian Centers Council v. Sale

N/A

OUTCOME: plaintiffs obtained permanent injunction at trial

Civil rights challenge to detention by US government of 300+ HIV positive Haitian asylum seekers at Guantanamo Bay Cuba. Coordinated trial preparation and legal research when legal team including ACLU ... Immigrants Rights Project, Bay Area Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, Yale Law School Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, and Center for Constitutional Rights sought permanent injunction requiring release of asylum seekers to any location except Haiti. Earlier, successfully defended preliminary injunction on appeal in Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

Constitutional

Streetwatch v. Amtrak

N/A

OUTCOME: plaintiffs won preliminary injunction & settlement

Civil rights action against Amtrak police for expulsion and physical abuse of homeless people in Penn Station in New York City. Plainiffs won a preliminary injunction in a published opinion, and then a ... favorable settlement from Amtrak.

Criminal defense

Hooks v. City of Seattle

N/A

OUTCOME: case moot; legal & factual findings for petitioner

Writ of prohibition challenging removal of Seattle misdemeanor defendants pending trial to Yakima Jail. Case was moot because decided on day petitioner would have gone to trial; but trial court judge's ... findings & legal conclusions supported petitioner's position in virtually every respect. Shortly afterwards, Seattle suspended sending pre-trial defendants to Yakima.

Lisa Daugaard's Legal Cases (5)

State v. Johnson

Archie v. Grand Central Partnership

Haitian Centers Council v. McNary; Haitian Centers Council v. Sale

Streetwatch v. Amtrak

Hooks v. City of Seattle