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Abogado Piovi en Pasadena, CA: Joshua Piovia-Scott is a partner at the civil rights litigation firm of Hadsell Stormer & Renick, LLP. Mr. Piovia-Scott...
Joshua Piovia-Scott is a partner at the civil rights litigation firm of Hadsell Stormer & Renick, LLP. Mr. Piovia-Scott specializes in both class action and individual civil and constitutional rights cases involving harassment and discrimination, police misconduct, slavery and human trafficking, retaliation for whistleblowing, the right to free speech and wage theft by employers. Mr. Piovia-Scott has practiced in both state and federal court, and has represented clients at all stages of litigation.Mr. Piovia-Scott has worked on a wide range of high profile cases, including De La Trinidad v. Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, in which the Sheriff's Department paid $5.3 million to the family of a man shot and killed by Sheriff's deputies, Ruiz v. Jackson, in which a jury awarded $1.6 million against a Sony Executive for coercing a Filipino woman into service as a domestic slave and Navarro v. Pacifica, a wage and hour class action on behalf of low wage hotel workers that settled for $6.5 million.Mr. Piovia-Scott is also one of the lead counsel in Keunang v. LAPD, a case on behalf of the family of an unarmed homeless man whose videotaped killing by the LAPD was seen by millions of people around the world and Morad v. Long Beach Police Department, a case on behalf of the family of an accomplished college student who was shot and killed by the Long Beach Police Department despite the fact that he was unarmed and seriously injured.Mr. Piovia-Scott secured a published appellate court victory for the First Amendment right to political speech in 2011. He was one of the lead counsel in the case of former Orange County Sheriff Jeff Bardzik, who alleged that he was retaliated against by then-Sheriff Michael Carona for supporting Carona's opponent in the election for County Sheriff. Mr. Piovia-Scott successfully opposed defendants' summary judgment motion and then briefed and argued the case in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. On March 28, 2011, the Ninth Circuit issued a published opinion holding that Bardzik could proceed to trial on his First Amendment right to political speech claim and that Carona was not entitled to qualified immunity for his retaliation. Bardzik. Bardzik v. County of Orange, 635 F.3d 1138 (9th Cir. 2011). The case later settled for $950,000, one of the largest settlements of this kind in the history of Orange County.Mr. Piovia-Scott received the 'Religious Liberty Award' from the ACLU of Southern California in June of 2012 for his work on a case challenging the United States government's surveillance of Muslim Americans solely on the basis of their religion. Fazaga, et al. v. Federal Bureau of Investigations, et al., SACV11-00301CJC (VBKx).Mr. Piovia-Scott has been selected as a Rising Star" by the Los Angeles Magazine and Law & Politics Magazine for each year since 2005. He is frequently asked to speak about civil rights litigation by legal organizations
