Firm Files Two New Cases
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The firm has just filed two new cases, one using a pseudonym. The first case is against a ministry and the owner minister of the ministry for hiring a minister with a known prior conviction involving sexual assaults on multiple children while working earlier with another religious organization. The lawsuit alleges the minister was negligently hired, negligently supervised, and negligently, recklessly and with actual knowledge allowed to live with a child and his grandmother who was a ministry volunteer. This minister was also allowed to actively work with other children, without warni …
Read The Rest of This PostSettlement Reached in Police Suit
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May 2, 2011 -- Press Release on behalf of Alexander Landau The City Council has now approved paying $795,000.00 on behalf of all Defendants to settle with Alexander Landau. The City is commended for taking responsibility for this senseless beating and racial branding. The Police Department and City have also agreed, as part of this settlement, that the re-opened IAB investigation of the involved officers in this case will be completed, including as to Randy Murr and Ricky Nixon who have now both been fired. When Alex first complained to IAB, his complaints of brutality wer …
Read The Rest of This PostLawsuit against Denver Police
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In January 2011, the firm filed a complaint on behalf of Alexander Landau, an African American college student, alleging that he was beaten unconscious while known to be unarmed by multiple Denver police officers during a routine traffic stop. The Colorado Civil Rights suit further alleges that he was called racial names after this beating. Photos of his battered face were taken. The case seeks damages and an injunction to address alleged non neutrality and mishandling of Internal Affairs Bureau investigations of racially motivated police misconduct and excessive force complaints against …
Read The Rest of This PostJohn Holland featured in Video Collection of Disability Civil Rights Advocates
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The "It's Our Story" program is a national initiative to make “disability history public and accessible.” This oral history project collects “over 1,000 video interviews from disability leaders across the country.” The recently released archival collection of interviews includes people who played significant roles in the establishment of important legal rights, culminating in the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Mr. Holland is interviewed in about a dozen segments regarding “working at the forefront of disability civi …
Read The Rest of This PostFirm listed as a Tier 1 Law Firm by US News Best Law Firm Rankings
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We are pleased to announce that our law firm has recently been selected for inclusion as a Colorado Tier One law firm by U. S News and World Report and Best Lawyers’ 2011 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the practice areas of Medical Malpractice Law and Personal Injury Litigation. According to Best Lawyers, “selection to Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive and rigorous peer-review survey comprising more than 3.1 million confidential evaluations by the top attorneys in the country.”
Read The Rest of This PostCTLA'S 2010 "Access to Justice" Award
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All three of our firm’s attorneys were honored this year by the Colorado Trial Lawyer’s Association. John Holland, Anna Holland-Edwards and Erica Grossman were recognized for their work in Guantanamo Bay, as well as the firm’s work in obtaining access to justice for other clients, by being awarded with the first Access to Justice Award, presented at the 2010 CTLA’s 13th Annual Spring Dinner. The Law Offices of John Holland has been involved with defending the rights of detainees in Guantanamo Bay since 2004. We are honored that this important legal cause concerning …
Read The Rest of This PostACLU'S 2010 Carle Whitehead Award
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John Holland, Anna Holland-Edwards and Erica Grossman, along with 7 other Colorado attorneys, are proud to have received the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado’s 2010 Carle Whitehead Memorial Award on September 25th, 2010. According to the ACLU, this award is being given “to individuals who stand on principle to defend our civil liberties” and to “honor ten Colorado attorneys who forced our government to confront its utter failure to live up to the Constitution, by defending those men detained indefinitely at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.” The ACLU pr …
Read The Rest of This PostNew Website
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Welcome to our new website. The Law Offices of John Holland has spent the past several months putting together a new, more integrated website for our firm. We hope that it will be more user friendly and representative of our interests, experience and the range of our work. Please take some time to browse the information listed here. If you have a potential case and are thinking about finding a lawyer, please look at our Practice Areas, Firm Bios and significant cases within the Nursing Home and Civil Rights headings to help decide if we would be a good fit for you. Thank you.
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Recent Posts
- 1/2012 - Firm Files Two New Cases
- 5/2011 - Settlement Reached in Police Suit
- 2/2011 - Lawsuit against Denver Police
- 10/2010 - John Holland featured in Video Collection of Disability Civil Rights Advocates
- 10/2010 - Firm listed as a Tier 1 Law Firm by US News Best Law Firm Rankings
- 9/2010 - CTLA'S 2010 "Access to Justice" Award
- 9/2010 - ACLU'S 2010 Carle Whitehead Award
- 9/2010 - New Website