Today the family of Tanisha Anderson has announced their settlement of claims against the City of Cleveland and two police officers for a total of $2.25 million but the family continues to demand reforms and a memorial, including. Establish...
Gerhardstein & Branch, on behalf of our client, filed a lawsuit against two Warren County corrections officers for rape and shattering the client’s shoulder bones during one of the non-consensual assaults. Seven Warren County nurses...
Al Gerhardstein in the Cincinnati Enquirer: Our community cannot resign itself to the rising death toll among mentally ill persons who encounter Cincinnati police. An Enquirer story, “Mentally ill make up nearly half of those killed by CPD...
Montgomery County Common Pleas Court Judge Wiseman issued an Order yesterday that will allow the WMCD to remain open for business while WMCD appeals the Department of Health’s arbitrary and unlawful order shutting the clinic down. If the...
On December 6, 2016, the civil lawsuit brought by the family of Samantha Ramsey against Boone County relating to her death on April 26, 2014 was settled by an agreement between the parties. The terms of the settlement include a payment of $3.5...
Al Gerhardstein, Iris Roley and former FOP President Kathy Harrell traveled to Milwaukee to speak to civil rights, advocacy, faith and service organizations about the long and difficult journey to achieve the collaborative agreement and the work...
Al Gerhardstein is one of the attorneys that has represented the DuBose family. He is also a founder of the Collaborative Agreement that instituted police reforms in Cincinnati fifteen years ago. As the Ray Tensing trial starts it is helpful to...
Al Gerhardstein co-authored an article published by the Cincinnati Enquirer ‘Tensing Trial Spurs Fear and Opportunity for Reform’. Check the article out here: http://cin.ci/2f3NZto
For over fifty years civil rights attorneys have gathered at the Airlie Civil Rights Conference in Warrenton Virginia to share ideas and latest news. This year, on October 13 “15, G & B partner Al Gerhardstein was tapped along with...
Al Gerhardstein is a featured attorney on the show Fault Lines which explores the risks posed by improper use of tasers. He is interviewed along with his clients on cases where he successfully represented victims and families of those harmed or...
Rachel Dovel has worked at the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County for over 10 years. Although given the gender of male at birth, she identifies as a woman. In 2015 she told her co-workers and supervisors she was transitioning her...
A lawsuit filed by Gerhardstein and Branch was featured on WCPO.com: “The Boone County sheriff’s deputy sued by the family of Samantha Ramsey is now at the center of a false arrest lawsuit. Melissa and Donald Covington are suing...
