Louisiana jury returns $42.75 million verdict against LaSalle Management Company
(October 23, 2025, Los Angeles) – The children of Erie Moore, Sr.’s decade-long fight for justice for their father’s death has culminated in a verdict of $42.75 million against LaSalle Management Company, the largest verdict against a private correctional company in United States history, and the largest civil rights verdict ever in Louisiana, Omar Qureshi, founder of Qureshi Law PC, said today. Earlier this week, a jury in the Western District of Louisiana found LaSalle liable for causing Mr. Moore, Sr.’s death in 2015, for the company’s practice of excessive force to punish detainees, and for its reckless indifference to detainees’ safety. LaSalle is one of the biggest private jail companies in the United States.
Mr. Moore, Sr. was a 57-year-old retired mill worker, the father of three adult children–Plaintiffs Tiffany Robinson, Tamara Green, and Erie Moore, Jr.—and had no criminal history. On October 12, 2015, the Monroe Police Department arrested him for yelling in a donut shop on a misdemeanor charge of disturbing the peace. They took him to Richwood Correctional Center, a private jail owned and operated by LaSalle. Within minutes of arriving, the jail’s chief of security maced Mr. Moore in the face while he was handcuffed. Over the next thirty-six hours, guards repeatedly maced Mr. Moore, threatened him, tackled him, and kicked him. The abuse culminated the night of October 13, when guards body slammed Mr. Moore head-first to the ground, picked his motionless body up and slipped, dropping him on his head and causing his fatal brain injury.
“Erie Moore, Sr.’s life was a gift to his family and community. LaSalle Management Company ended it with utter indifference,” said attorney Max Schoening of Qureshi Law, who along with Mr. Qureshi, represented Mr. Moore, Sr.’s children at trial. “It is a testament to his children’s love, courage, and resilience that, in the face of enormous obstacles, they obtained justice for their father and a historic victory for civil rights in this country,” Mr. Schoening said.
Erie Moore, Sr.
After dropping Mr. Moore on his head, guards carried Mr. Moore to be interrogated by an assistant warden in the “Four Way,” one of the only areas at Richwood without a surveillance camera. As the jury found, guards continued to use excessive force against him there. He remained in the Four Way for two hours, without anyone calling for an ambulance, even though he was lying handcuffed on the floor, unconscious. After the incident, LaSalle did not provide any negative feedback to, let alone discipline, any involved staff member; instead, the warden praised and later promoted them.
The two-week jury trial in Monroe, Louisiana resulted in a verdict against LaSalle of $19.5 million in compensatory damages (returned October 20), and $23.25 million in punitive damages (returned October 21). The total $42.75 million verdict is among the largest in a civil rights case in United States history. LaSalle runs jails and detention centers throughout the American South and is one of the biggest jailers of ICE detainees in the country.
“My father is buried eight minutes away from the home where I grew up, in Bastrup, Louisiana. For the past ten years, my sisters and I have been tormented knowing he is not resting easy,” said Erie Moore, Jr. “This trial has shined light where there was darkness. It has brought our family truth, justice, and peace. We are relieved,” he said.
“With its verdict, the jury affirmed the value of Erie Moore, Sr.’s life, and sent an unequivocal message to LaSalle: if you make money off of jailing people, you cannot disregard their rights and safety,” said Mr. Qureshi.
Mr. Qureshi and Mr. Schoening, of Los Angeles-based Qureshi Law, joined Mr. Moore, Sr.’s children’s legal team as their trial attorneys in April 2025. Along with attorney Will Horowitz, also of Qureshi Law, they represent victims of civil rights abuses in California and across the country.
Justice would not have been possible without the tireless efforts of many attorneys, starting with Nelson Cameron, of Shreveport, Louisiana, who has represented the Moore family since 2016. The case only made it to a jury because of an appeal the family won in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in 2022. The Moore family was represented in the appeal by James Anglin Flynn, Mark S. Davies, Melanie Hallums, Joseph R. Kolker, and Jodie Liu of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP; Leslie Bailey, John He, and Ellen Noble of Public Justice; Tiffany R. Wright, Jade Gasek, and Ciarra Carr of Howard University School of Law Civil Rights Clinic; Leslie Brueckner of Bailey & Glasser; and Mr. Cameron. Rachel Shalev, of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP was also an invaluable member of the Moore family’s legal team.
Erie Moore, Sr.’s family outside of federal courthouse in Monroe, Louisiana on October 21, 2025. From left to right, plaintiff Tamara Green, plaintiff Erie Moore, Jr., Erie Moore, Sr.’s sister Catherine Moore, and plaintiff Tiffany Robinson.
Video Shows Mammoth Lakes Police Killing Unarmed Man
Children of Jesus Uribe will file a lawsuit seeking accountability.
(Los Angeles, California) - Video released today by the Mammoth Lakes Police Department (MLPD) shows that its officers used excessive and unlawful force when they shot and killed Jesus Uribe Corona, an unarmed 39-year-old Mammoth Lakes resident, lawyers for his family said.
“The video demonstrates that the police’s use of deadly force was completely unnecessary. He was unarmed, had not thrown a rock at officers, and was at a safe distance from them,” said Will Horowitz, an attorney from Qureshi Law who represents Mr. Uribe’s children.
On March 4, 2025, MLPD officers encountered Mr. Uribe outside of the town library, where he appeared to be having a mental health crisis and holding two rocks. Officers pointed their guns at him instead of taking any steps to de-escalate the situation, leading him to retreat. During his retreat, he encountered two other officers who shot him multiple times and killed him. He never threw a rock at the police and was unarmed.
“Jesus’s death has been absolutely devastating for me and our kids,” said Ashely Ramirez, the mother of Esteban and Maurizio, Mr. Uribe’s 11 and 8-year-old children. “He was a loving man, father, and member of our community and should still be alive today,” she said.
Mr. Uribe and his two sons.
Wendy Galvan, Mr. Uribe’s niece, added, “The senseless killing of my uncle has brought fear and pain to my family and community.”
Mr. Uribe and his extended family have lived in Mammoth Lakes, California, a leading skiing and outdoor recreation destination in the United States, for more than 25 years. He worked in construction, landscaping, and roofing and is survived by his two children, mother, and five brothers and sisters.
“Today we will begin the process of filing a civil rights lawsuit against MLPD and the involved officers to seek justice for Mr. Uribe, his children, and family,” said Max Schoening, an attorney from Qureshi Law who also represents his children.
MLPD has stated that the officers who shot Mr. Uribe were not wearing body cameras. The California Department of Justice is investigating whether to bring criminal charges against the officers that shot Mr. Uribe because he was unarmed.
For more information, contact: Will Horowitz, Will@qureshi.law or Max Schoening, Max@qureshi.law.
Memorial where Mr. Uribe was killed in Mammoth Lakes, California
Qureshi Law Joins Knight First Amendment Institute in Filing a Lawsuit Against Meta
Qureshi Law is proud to join the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University in filing a lawsuit today against Meta in the Northern District of California. Filed on behalf of Ethan Zuckerman—a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst—the lawsuit asks the court to recognize that federal law empowers people to use tools to curate and control their social media experiences, including their Facebook news feed. Mr. Zuckerman would like to release a tool he’s calling Unfollow Everything 2.0—which would effectively allow Facebook users to turn off their news feeds—but hasn’t yet done so because he’s afraid Meta will sue him. In 2021, Meta (then-Facebook) sent an aggressive cease-and-desist letter to another developer to halt his creation of a very similar tool to the one Mr. Zuckerman seeks to release.
In the words of Mr. Zuckerman, “I’m suing Facebook to make it better. The major social media companies have too much control over what content their users see and don’t see.”
You can read the full complaint here.
Qureshi Law Has Won an Appeal Protecting Plaintiffs’ Rights Against Arbitration Clauses
Omar Qureshi of Qureshi Law PC and L. David Russell of Russell Law, P.C. recently won an appeal before California’s Court of Appeal for the Second Appellate District.
The Defendant, Interactive Life Forms, LLC argued that e-commerce websites can bind consumers to arbitration in the event of a dispute just because a website’s term of use has terms of service that contain such arbitration provisions.
The Court of Appeal, in a published opinion, instead held that these “browserwrap” provisions on a website do not form enforceable agreements to arbitrate under California law.
You can find the entire opinion below:
Omar Qureshi Featured in Missouri Lawyers Magazine
Omar Qureshi was recently featured in Missouri Lawyers Magazine for his work in the Wong v. Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District case. Omar won a $45 million jury verdict on behalf of two young autistic boys, who were abused by a school district employee.
https://molawyersmedia.com/2023/05/12/missouri-attorney-wins-large-verdict-for-l-a-schools-abuse/
Cable Companies Have Created a Major Risk of Sexual Assault
Charter Communications, Inc. has a history of sending servicepersons into customers’ homes who then sexually and violently assault its customers.
Recently, in Saint Louis, Missouri, a cable repairman sexually assaulted a Charter customer. Charter subcontracted with two firms who hired the repairman. The subcontractors did not do a background check, and Charter did not ensure that they did so. Neither Charter nor the subcontractors sent a supervisor with the repairman, who had just started doing service calls on behalf of the company. Similarly, in Dallas, a Charter cable installer raped a 72-year-old woman in her home.
The risk of sending an untrained, unsupervised, and potentially dangerous person into the houses of vulnerable customers is great. In Las Vegas, Nevada, a cable serviceman working for a contractor and who represented a major cable company was able to assault several customers in their homes before the police finally caught him. In Chicago, another cable repairman raped two people and murdered a customer in her her home.
Unfortunately, these are just a handful of examples of a chronic problem that persists within the industry generally and Charter specifically.
A Charter Communications serviceperson sexually assaulted our client, and we recently filed a lawsuit against Charter Communications, Inc. in Los Angeles Superior Court. You can find a copy of the Complaint filed by Qureshi Law below.
ABC News Covers Lawsuit Against School District for Covering Up Sexual Assault
ABC News has covered our lawsuit on behalf of a young woman with an intellectual disability against Clovis Unified School District in Clovis, California. The school tragically covered up multiple sexual assaults. You can find the full story here and can find the video below.
You can find the Complaint filed in Fresno County Superior Court below: