Representative Litigation and Counseling Matters

• Represent leading food and beverage retailers and manufacturers to defend alleged Proposition 65 violations and putative class actions alleging false advertising and consumer protection claims
• Defended national managed care organization in False Claims Act qui tam action relating to compliance with Medicare Advantage regulations
• Represent managed care organizations in connection with investigations by the Department of Justice
• Counsel managed care organizations in connection with internal investigations into alleged regulatory, Anti-Kickback Statute and False Claims Act violations
• Provide pro bono representation to individuals seeking immigration relief, including adjustment of immigration status and asylum; secured legal permanent residency (green card status) to refugee survivor of torture
• Represented Planned Parenthood Arizona and individual clinicians in litigation challenging statutes that reduce access to reproductive health care
• Counsel leading Los Angeles organizations serving individuals experiencing homelessness on the constitutional rights of its residents

Representative Appellate Matters

• Victory at the Ninth Circuit in an immigration case, obtaining relief for a young woman seeking asylum (Padilla Ortiz v. Garland)
• Amicus briefs to the United States Supreme Court on behalf of federal defender and sentencing reform advocacy organizations to end violations of the Fifth and Sixth Amendments caused by federal sentencing judges’ practice of considering conduct for which the defendant was acquitted by a jury in enhancing, often significantly, the defendant’s sentence
• Amicus brief to the United States Supreme Court on behalf of sixty-nine leading American business enterprises urging the Court to reaffirm that racial and ethnic diversity in university admissions is a compelling state interest (Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. University of North Carolina and Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President & Fellows of Harvard College, Nos. 20-1199 and 21-707)