Paboojian & Bell

A Fresno County jury awarded $49.8 million to a Kingsburg mortgage broker left in a permanent vegetative state after an American Ambulance paramedic dislodged his breathing tube during transport and could not restore his airway.

A Fresno County jury awarded women's basketball coach Stacy Johnson-Klein $19.1 million against California State University, Fresno, then the largest employment verdict against a public entity in U.S. history, for sex discrimination, sexual harassment, and retaliation; the case settled for $9 million after post-trial motions reduced the award.

A Fresno County jury found that Chipotle fabricated a theft allegation against a high-performing general manager to mask retaliation for a workers' compensation claim, awarding her $7.97 million in one of California's top employment verdicts of 2018.

A Fresno County jury returned an $800,000 verdict for Veronica Ordaz Gonzalez and her boyfriend after sheriff's deputies entered their home without a warrant and shot and killed their dog, Scooby; the Fifth District Court of Appeal later upheld the award.

The City of Fresno paid $500,000 to resolve a civil rights lawsuit after bodycam footage and an independent police auditor confirmed that an officer's repeated punches to a 17-year-old bystander exceeded department policy.