Accomplished trial lawyers who get results.
We win police brutality cases.
De'von Bailey
Mari and co-counsel obtained a $2,900,000 settlement for the family of De’von Bailey, a young Black man who was shot by police as he was running away. In addition to this monetary payment, the City of Colorado Springs committed to meaningful policy changes to avoid future wrongdoing, including additional training to its officers regarding the use of force and implicit bias, maintaining an early intervention program and retaining officer personnel files to help identify and address problem officers, and educating officers regarding community based programs.
Alberto Torres
Mari Newman and Andy McNulty, working with the ACLU of Colorado, obtained a $285,000 settlement for Jamie Alberto Torres Soto, a Latino man who was illegally ordered out of his home and unjustifiably beaten by Aurora Police officers who were called to investigate a noise complaint. Mari and Andy uncovered not only a vicious attack on Alberto but a widespread pattern of racially biased policing in Aurora with little accountability, and they held the officers and Aurora accountable.
Philip White
Mari Newman, Andy McNulty, and co-counsel obtained approximately $1,000,000 on behalf of Philip White, an elderly blind man who was brutalized by Denver police officers while trying to get a bus ride home. Mari and Andy went to trial against Denver and the jury recognized the outrageous conduct of the officers in awarding a $400,000 verdict for his injuries. After court-awarded attorneys fees and interest, the defendants paid nearly $1,000,000 for violating Philip’s civil rights.
We win wrongful termination cases.
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Sandra Simmons v. General Steel
A Jefferson County jury awarded Mari Newman’s client over $1.4 million after she was fired for opposing her employer’s illegal practices. The judge was so outraged by the employer’s conduct that he doubled the jury’s punitive damages verdict. The total verdict was approximately $2.6 million.
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Robert Wunder v. Echo Bay Mines
Mari Newman and co-counsel secured a jury award of nearly $1.2 million in a case of fraudulent inducement of employment and failure to pay wages. The jury awarded $557,000 in actual economic losses, and even though our our client received a severance payment upon his termination of nearly $580,000, the jury awarded an additional $557,000 in punitive damages.
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Sandye Whittaker v. Aspen Land
Mari Newman and her team secured a judgment of over $2.2 million in a case in Denver District Court against her former employer. Ms. Whitaker brought claims including fraud, negligent misrepresentation, breach of contract, and promissory estoppel after she was induced to enter into an employment agreement in reliance on fraudulent misrepresentations, and was then fired.
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Jane Doe v. ABC Medical Provider
Mari Newman, Andy McNulty, and co-counsel obtained a $1,300,000 settlement for a healthcare provider who was fired after blowing the whistle on her employer's scheme to commit Medicare and Medicaid fraud, and her complaints about their violation of a number of patient safety regulations.
We win jail and prison misconduct cases.
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Emily Rice
Mari Newman and co-counsel obtained settlements totaling $7,000,0000 for the family of Emily Rice, a vivacious young woman with a bright future who needlessly died in the Denver jail. Emily was booked into the jail on suspicion of DWI after a car accident from which she sustained life threatening, but treatable, injuries. Emily died because of the deliberate indifference of jail nurse and guards who ignored obvious signs of internal bleeding. Mari and her team worked tirelessly to get justice for Emily’s family, achieving high dollar settlements that included multiple significant changes to policy and training at both the Denver jail and Denver Health to prevent future deaths.
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Marvin Booker
Marvin Booker was a homeless street preacher who was arrested for burning dollar bills as he tried to explain the impact of drug abuse to a woman on the street. Marvin was killed by Denver jail guards who tacked him for trying to retrieve his shoes on the way to his jail cell. Guards inflicted a chokehold, tased him repeatedly, and piled on top of him until he suffocated to death. Mari Newman and co-counsel fought for years alongside Marvin’s family. After a three-week trial against the Denver sheriffs who killed Marvin, Mari and her team won Colorado’s then-largest verdict in a civil rights case for a death at the hands of law enforcement. As a result, Denver paid Marvin’s family $6,000,000.
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Michael Marshall
Michael Marshall was experiencing a mental health episode when Denver jail guards tackled him to the ground. They forced him onto his stomach and squeezed the life out of him. Even when it was clear he was dying, no one provided him with any medical care. Instead, they strapped him into a restraint chair and watched him die. Mari and her team used their experience to settle the case for $4,850,000 — and meaningful changes to policy and training — before the filing of a lawsuit. Among other significant changes designed to save lives, the settlement mandated that the Denver jails have mental health counselors on-call twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
We win employment discrimination cases.
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MARI TO FILL IN
A Jefferson County jury awarded Mari Newman’s client over $1.4 million after she was fired for opposing her employer’s illegal practices. The judge was so outraged by the employer’s conduct that he doubled the jury’s punitive damages verdict. The total verdict was approximately $2.6 million.
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MARI TO FILL IN
Mari Newman and co-counsel secured a jury award of nearly $1.2 million in a case of fraudulent inducement of employment and failure to pay wages. The jury awarded $557,000 in actual economic losses, and even though our our client received a severance payment upon his termination of nearly $580,000, the jury awarded an additional $557,000 in punitive damages.
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MARI TO FILL IN
Mari Newman and her team secured a judgment of over $2.2 million in a case in Denver District Court against her former employer. Ms. Whitaker brought claims including fraud, negligent misrepresentation, breach of contract, and promissory estoppel after she was induced to enter into an employment agreement in reliance on fraudulent misrepresentations, and was then fired.
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MARI TO FILL IN
Mari Newman, Andy McNulty, and co-counsel obtained a $1,300,000 settlement for a healthcare provider who was fired after blowing the whistle on her employer's scheme to commit Medicare and Medicaid fraud, and her complaints about their violation of a number of patient safety regulations.
We win First Amendment cases.
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George Floyd Protest Cases
Andy McNulty and Mari Newman obtained over $2,500,000 for protesters who were injured by law enforcement during the George Floyd protests in Denver and Colorado Springs. Andy sued to vindicate the free speech and assembly rights of all the Black Lives Matter protesters.
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Josh Condiatti-Wade
Andy McNulty and co-counsel obtained a $175,000 pre-litigation settlement for Josh from Commerce City, Colorado. Commerce City police officers had confronted Josh for protesting outside of a government building. When Josh refused to provide identification, they chased him and attempted (but failed) to tase him. The settlement led to the firing of the officer who attempted to tase Josh.
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Brittany Iriart
Andy McNulty obtained a $175,000 settlement from the City and County of Denver on behalf of a woman who was fired for blowing the whistle on misconduct within the Sheriff’s Department’s Internal Affairs division.
We win cases to protect the vulnerable from government and corporate abuse.
Protecting People With Disabilities
In K.M., et al. v. Hickenlooper, Mari Newman and her team secured a $1,000,000 settlement for a group of people with severe intellectual or developmental disabilities who were subjected to forcible strip searches without their consent. In addition, the state of Colorado made significant policy and training changes for the protection of people with disabilities in its care.
Protecting the Rights of Exotic Dancers
Through a series of large multi-plaintiff lawsuits, Mari Newman has taken on strip clubs in Colorado and across the county for not fairly paying performers. In addition to significant monetary settlements for the dancers, Mari has won important rulings with national industry-wide impact. In Mason v. Fantasy, LLC, Mari won a plaintiffs’ summary judgment establishing that her exotic dancer clients were employees, rather than independent contractors, within the meaning of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, and were thus entitled to be compensated by the clubs where they worked. In Santich v. VCG Holding Corp., Mari prevailed in the Colorado Supreme Court, limiting the rights of non-signatories to enforce an arbitration agreement. As applied to Mari’s clients, a large group of exotic dancers from across the country, the corporate owners of multiple clubs were not legally entitled to enforce arbitration agreements between the exotic dancers and the clubs where they worked. This ruling is an important step toward the preservation of the critical right to trial by jury.
Marriage Equality
In Burns v. Hickenlooper, Mari Newman and her team won a multi-plaintiff case in federal court challenging Colorado’s same-sex marriage ban. After this decision and others across the country, the United States Supreme Court allowed marriage equality to become the law of the land.
We win public accommodations cases.
Diana Sanchez
Mari Newman and Andy McNulty obtained a settlement of $480,000 for a woman who was forced to give birth in the Denver County Jail on Smith Road. Diana complained for hours that she was in active labor, but was ignored by Denver jail guards. She gave brith to her son on a cold concrete bench. Mari and Andy fought to hold Denver accountable.
Jane Doe
Mari Newman and her team secured a settlement of $350,000 on behalf of a woman evicted from a hotel because of her religion. In addition, the settlement included various types of non-monetary consideration, including mandatory company-wide sensitivity and anti-discrimination training.