Chilling New Details Come to Light in Fatal Police Shooting of Derrick Clark Jr.
Seattle, WA – Stritmatter Law filed a First Amended Complaint against the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office for the fatal shooting of 24-year-old Black father, Derrick Clark Jr.
The wrongful death federal lawsuit claims that Clackamas County unlawfully chased down and shot Mr. Clark in the back. Failed to...
Boeing and Alaska Airlines Deny Legal Responsibility to Passengers of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282
The Boeing Company and Alaska Airlines filed answers in federal court on March 11, 2024, which formally admit the NTSB found door plug bolts essential to safe flight were missing. Alaska Airlines admits that passengers at the time of the incident “reported experiencing varying levels of physical and emotional distress” from the...
City of Bellevue Shafts Motorcycle Officer Who Fell Onto I-5 During Vice President Escort
On August 15, 2023, Bellevue Police motorcycle officer Kevin Bereta was part of a team of officers charged with escorting Vice President Kamala Harris during her public duties around the Seattle area.
The motorcycle officers, including Officer Bereta, would ride ahead of the group of vehicles surrounding and including...
Historic Jury Verdict in Seattle Children’s Hospital Class Action
On February 8th, 2024, in a historic jury verdict, Seattle Children's Hospital was held responsible for exposing two babies and an eleven-year-old to aspergillus fungus in the operating room during heart surgery. These three cases are the first of more than seventy additional plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit that was certified...
The Dark Side of AI: Confronting the Deepfake Crisis Targeting Women from Taylor Swift to High School Students
By Deb Silberman
While Taylor Swift was back in rehearsals for the next leg of her Eras Tour, sexually explicit deepfake images of Taylor Swift went viral on X. Unlike the millions of Swifties and Taylor’s powerful team who have her back, many young women are facing this trauma alone...
City of Seattle Settles Peaceful Protester Lawsuit for $10M
After George Floyd was brutally murdered on May 25, 2020, the 50 Peaceful...
Press Conference: Class Action Against Boeing Adds Claims Against Alaska Airlines and Names More Passengers
Passengers of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 File Class Action Lawsuit Against Boeing
Seattle, WA – On January 11th 2023, Stritmatter Law filed a class-action lawsuit against The Boeing Company on behalf of the passengers on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282, operated with a Boeing 737-MAX 9. On January 5, 2024, the flight experienced a critical failure when the aircraft's left-side door plug detached mid-flight, leading to...
Marysville Worker’s Death Leads to Historic $9.8M Settlement
Shortly before this new year, the estate of a worker killed when he fell into an unprotected sewage augur settled a wrongful death lawsuit against the City of Marysville, its Canadian contractor American Process Group, Inc., and the machine’s lessor, Synagro-WWT, Inc. and its related entities for a combined amount of over...
Native American Heritage Month
By Kristin Michaud (Anishinaabe) & Shannon Kilpatrick
With the recent release of Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, and in honor of Native American Heritage Month, we are exploring how equality and equity rely on accurate representation of a people, culture, and event. Native people have...