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September 30, 2026 The New York Times 55 Swatting Calls: A Couple’s Fight Against Online Stalkers and the Police The city of Milwaukee agreed to a $575,000 settlement after months of heavily armed police responses to 911 calls to the couple’s home that officials knew were hoaxes. John Bradley, a lawyer for the couple, acknowledged that the Milwaukee police “did their job on the first few swatting calls.” “The problem,” he added, “came after it had happened dozens of times.” Read article Read article (PDF)
September 15, 2026 The Badger Project Wisconsin police chief sued 3x, accused of unconstitutional stops A sheriff’s deputy and small-town police chief, Brendan Cutrell, is the subject of three federal lawsuits alleging he violated the Fourth Amendment rights of individuals he pulled over. Read article Read article (PDF)
September 14, 2026 TMJ4 Video TMJ4 Lighthouse Investigation – City of Milwaukee Settles $575,000 Swatting Lawsuit TMJ4's Investigative Report about the City of Milwaukee Settling a Civil Rights Lawsuit by Niki Robinson and Patrick Tomlinson for $575,000 For MPD's Relentless Swatting of Their Home. Watch
May 19, 2026 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel City may pay $575,000 to settle MPD ‘swatting’ lawsuit involving local author Milwaukee City Attorney Evan Goyke is recommending that the city pay more than half a million dollars to settle a federal lawsuit over the Milwaukee Police Department repeatedly entering and searching a local author’s home in response to false 911 calls. Read article Read article (PDF)
May 19, 2026 CBS 58 Milwaukee Video Milwaukee couple reaches $575,000 settlement with city after repeated swatting responses After years of harassment, frustration, and danger, a Milwaukee couple is poised to receive a settlement payment from the City of Milwaukee. The city has agreed to pay the $575,000 settlement for not properly training 20 ofﬁcers involved. Watch
October 17, 2025 CNN Strang Bradley defends Wisconsin man on federal charges after posting TikTok videos CNN has reached out to Stanton’s attorney for comment. In a statement to the New York Times, John Bradley, a lawyer for Stanton, said: “It is important to remember that the contents of a criminal complaint represent one side of the story and are just allegations. Mr. Stanton pled not guilty. He is presumed innocent, and we will vigorously defend against these charges in court.” Read article Read article (PDF)
October 16, 2025 The New York Times Strang Bradley defends Wisconsin man facing federal charges related to ICE agents In a statement, John Bradley, a lawyer for Mr. Stanton, a Marine Corps veteran who served in the Iraq War, said: “It is important to remember that the contents of a criminal complaint represent one side of the story and are just allegations. Mr. Stanton pled not guilty. He is presumed innocent, and we will vigorously defend against these charges in court.” Read article Read article (PDF)
September 29, 2025 Northwoods Star Journal County, city, several officers named in civil rights lawsuit A Rhinelander man has ﬁled a federal lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin, alleging seven Oneida County sheriff’s deputies and two city police ofﬁcers violated his civil rights by engaging in an illegal search and seizure, unreasonable extension of seizure, unlawful arrest and failure to intervene. Read article Read article (PDF)
November 22, 2024 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Shorewood woman receives $760K civil rights settlement from City of Milwaukee Stephanie Rapkin has been awarded a $760,000 settlement after suing Shorewood and Whiteﬁsh Bay over her arrest in 2020 where police conducted a search of her home without a warrant. “To our knowledge, this is the largest police misconduct civil rights settlement in Wisconsin that doesn’t involve a death or serious injury,” John Bradley, one of Rapkin’s attorneys, told the Journal Sentinel. Read article Read article (PDF)
November 20, 2024 TMJ4 Video ‘Do you have a warrant?’ $760,000 settlement in ‘unlawful search and seizure’ lawsuit A Shorewood woman received a $760,000 settlement after police arrested her inside her home without a warrant. Lawyers believe it’s the largest civil rights settlement without an injury or death in state history—and it was all caught on camera. “There are many factors that an insurer evaluates when settling a claim on behalf of an insured,” said Village Manager Rebecca Ewald. “In this instance, there was a ‘fee shifting’ provision under federal law in which the insurer would have had to pay the plaintiff’s attorneys fees even if the jury awarded the plaintiff only a dollar. Additionally, the overall cost to litigate and take a case to trial in federal court is substantial.” Watch
December 15, 2022 strangbradley.com Russian national sues Mount Horeb Strang Bradley ﬁles a civil lawsuit on behalf of a Monona Grove High School student against four district staff members after they allegedly attempted an “unparticularized” and “racially motivated” search during a Black Student Union ﬁeld trip last month. “The defendants humiliated him — in public and in front of his peers — for no reason other than that he’s a black male,” said Rick Resch, attorney for the student. Read more
November 4, 2022 The Washington Post James M. Shellow, criminal defense lawyer and masterful cross-examiner, dies at 95 Read article
October 4, 2022 KVOA News 4 Family of Tucson man shot in motorized wheelchair files federal civil rights lawsuit On Monday, Strang Bradley, attorneys for Richards’ family ﬁled a federal civil rights lawsuit against both, Remington and the City Of Tucson “Our goal in ﬁling this lawsuit is to seek some measure of justice on behalf of Mr. Richards and his family,” attorney John Bradley said. “It was a violation of Mr. Richards constitutional rights to be free from unreasonable seizure and to be free from discrimination because of his disability,” Bradley said. “Mr. Remington’s actions were unconscionable, unreasonable and an intentional disregard to Mr. Richards’ rights.” Read article
September 21, 2022 azcentral Lawsuit filed against Tucson, police officer in fatal shooting of man in wheelchair Filed Monday in federal court on behalf of Richards’ estate, the lawsuit’s wrongful death claim contends Remington never gave Richards warning he was going to shoot him, did not have his pepper spray on him as required and issued by the city and never drew the stun gun he carried. “That Remington ﬁred the ﬁrst eight shots at the back of Richards as he sat there conﬁned in his wheelchair was unconscionable and disturbing. But the pause after the eighth shot, followed by the ninth shot, evidences Remington’s depraved state of mind and ought to shock the conscience of all human beings,” the lawsuit reads. Richards’ estate is being represented by Strang Bradley, a law ﬁrm based out of Madison, Wisc. Read article Read article (PDF)
September 20, 2022 KGUN 9 (Tucson) Video Live 7am News – Tucson ABC KGUN 9 Tucson ABC KGUN 9: Strang Bradley ﬁles a civil lawsuit on behalf of the family of Richard Lee Richards against the City of Tucson and Ryan Remington, the former Tucson Police Ofﬁcer who shot and killed Richards on November 29, 2021. Watch
September 20, 2022 KVOA News 4 (Tucson) Video Live 8am News – Tucson NBC KVOA News 4 Tucson NBC KVOA News 4: Strang Bradley ﬁles a civil lawsuit on behalf of the family of Richard Lee Richards against the City of Tucson and Ryan Remington, the former Tucson Police Ofﬁcer who shot and killed Richards on November 29, 2021. Watch
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September 20, 2022 KGUN 9 Family of Richard Lee Richards files civil suit against City of Tucson, Remington Strang Bradley ﬁles a civil lawsuit on behalf of the family of Richard Lee Richards against the City of Tucson and Ryan Remington, the former Tucson Police Ofﬁcer who shot and killed Richards in November of 2021. “Mr. Remington’s shooting of Mr. Richards as he sat there in the wheelchair without using or even attempting to use any other method of non-deadly force is a violation of Mr. Richards’ constitutional rights to be free from unreasonable seizure, and to be free from discrimination because of his disability,” said Bradley. Read article Read article (PDF)
September 20, 2022 Law & Crime Off-Duty Arizona Cop Who Shot Man, 61, in Wheelchair from Behind Acted with ‘Depraved State of Mind’: Lawsuit The sister of a disabled Arizona man who died after being shot multiple times by a police ofﬁcer while using his wheelchair has sued the ofﬁcer and city, claiming wrongful death and civil rights violations. Attorneys John Bradley and R. Rick Resch say in a complaint on behalf of Richards’ sister, Victoria Richards, that Richard Lee Richards didn’t have to die that night. “This lawsuit seeks to achieve a measure of justice for Richard Lee Richards and his survivors by establishing the obvious: An ofﬁcer cannot shoot in the back and kill a slow-moving shoplifting suspect in a wheelchair, without warning, when no one is in imminent danger,” the complaint says. Read article Read article (PDF)
September 20, 2022 Arizona Daily Star Family of man killed by former Tucson police officer files lawsuit The family of a man who was shot and killed by an off-duty Tucson police ofﬁcer last year has ﬁled a civil rights lawsuit against him and the city of Tucson. The lawsuit was ﬁled Monday in federal court on behalf of Richard Lee Richards and Victoria Richards, his sister, against Ryan Remington for fatally shooting Richards as he sat in his wheelchair, said John Bradley, attorney for the family and the estate. “Mr. Remington’s actions were unconscionable, unreasonable, and in intentional disregard of Mr. Richards’s rights,” Bradley said. Read article
September 19, 2022 KVOA News 4 (Tucson) Video Live 5pm News – Tucson NBC KVOA News 4 Tucson NBC KVOA News 4: Strang Bradley ﬁles a civil lawsuit on behalf of the family of Richard Lee Richards against the City of Tucson and Ryan Remington, the former Tucson Police Ofﬁcer who shot and killed Richards on November 29, 2021. Watch
September 19, 2022 KOLD News 13 (Tucson) Video Live 5pm News – Tucson CBS KOLD News 13 Tucson CBS KOLD News 13: Strang Bradley ﬁles a civil lawsuit on behalf of the family of Richard Lee Richards against the City of Tucson and Ryan Remington, the former Tucson Police Ofﬁcer who shot and killed Richards on November 29, 2021. Watch
September 19, 2022 KOLD News 13 (Tucson) Video Live 6pm News – Tucson CBS KOLD News 13 Tucson CBS KOLD News 13: Strang Bradley ﬁles a civil lawsuit on behalf of the family of Richard Lee Richards against the City of Tucson and Ryan Remington, the former Tucson Police Ofﬁcer who shot and killed Richards on November 29, 2021. Watch
September 19, 2022 KGUN 9 (Tucson) Video Live 10pm News – Tucson ABC KGUN 9 Tucson ABC KGUN 9: Strang Bradley ﬁles a civil lawsuit on behalf of the family of Richard Lee Richards against the City of Tucson and Ryan Remington, the former Tucson Police Ofﬁcer who shot and killed Richards on November 29, 2021. Watch
September 19, 2022 KOLD News 13 (Tucson) Video Live 10pm News – Tucson CBS KOLD News 13 Tucson CBS KOLD News 13: Strang Bradley ﬁles a civil lawsuit on behalf of the family of Richard Lee Richards against the City of Tucson and Ryan Remington, the former Tucson Police Ofﬁcer who shot and killed Richards on November 29, 2021. Watch
September 19, 2022 Tucson Sentinel Family sues ex-Tucson cop for fatally shooting man in wheelchair A civil rights suit was ﬁled Monday by the family of a 61-year-old man fatally shot in the back by a Tucson police ofﬁcer last November. In the lawsuit, attorney John H. Bradley wrote that then-Ofﬁcer Ryan Remington “intentionally” shot Richard Lee Richards in the back as he left the scene of a alleged shoplifting incident riding a motorized scooter, and the ofﬁcer’s actions were “excessive, unjustiﬁable, and unnecessary force.” Remington was swiftly ﬁred from the Tucson Police Department after the incident on Tucson’s South Side last year. The 18-page suit names Remington and the city of Tucson as defendants, and claims that Remington violated Richards’ right to be “free from unreasonable seizure.” Read article Read article (PDF)
August 26, 2022 CBS News Ex-cop indicted in fatal shooting of shoplifting suspect in wheelchair A former Tucson police ofﬁcer ﬁred after he allegedly shot an armed shoplifting suspect in a motorized wheelchair nine times last year has been indicted for manslaughter. John Bradley, a lawyer for the victim’s family, said the family plans to proceed with a separate civil suit against Remington in the next few weeks. Read article Read article (PDF)
August 25, 2022 KOLD News 13 Former Tucson officer Ryan Remington facing manslaughter charge for shooting armed suspect nine times The former Tucson police ofﬁcer who fatally shot an armed suspect in a mobility scooter last year has been indicted on a manslaughter charge. “Now that Mr. Remington has been indicted, Mr. Richards’s family will proceed with a civil rights lawsuit against Mr. Remington in the next few weeks,” said John Bradley of Strang Bradley, LLC. “A civil lawsuit is an important part of seeking justice for Mr. Richards and his family, too.” Read article Read article (PDF)
August 22, 2022 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Family says Calumet County Jail staff, medical staff ignored teen’s promise of suicide “Demetrius is one of the many victims of low-cost ﬁxed-price contract jail healthcare,” said John Bradley, the family’s attorney. “This private for-proﬁt healthcare contractor is ﬁnancially motivated to provide substandard care, to deny expensive prescription medication, to restrict access to outside heath providers, to understaff nurses at the jail.” Read article Read article (PDF)
June 2, 2022 The Herald-Independent and McFarland Thistle Monona Grove High School student files lawsuit against staff for alleged ‘racially motivated’ search Strang Bradley ﬁles a civil lawsuit on behalf of a Monona Grove High School student against four district staff members after they allegedly attempted an “unparticularized” and “racially motivated” search during a Black Student Union ﬁeld trip last month. “The defendants humiliated him — in public and in front of his peers — for no reason other than that he’s a black male,” said Rick Resch, attorney for the student. Read article Read article (PDF)
May 24, 2022 Wisconsin State Journal Monona Grove High School student files civil rights lawsuit against district for ‘unreasonable’ drug search Strang Bradley ﬁles a civil lawsuit on behalf of a Black Monona Grove High School junior against the district and four school staff members Monday alleging that an “unreasonable” attempted search for drugs was carried out by some of the staff members during a spring trip last month to Louisiana. Read article Read article (PDF)
April 7, 2022 Wisconsin State Journal Monona’s insurer agrees to pay $150,000 to settle civil rights case brought by Black man detained by police A federal judge ruled that ofﬁcers violated 25-year-old Keonte Furdge’s Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure when they entered the home guns drawn without a warrant. “The most dangerous course of action was the one actually taken by Wedig and Wunsch,” Judge Peterson wrote. Read article Read article (PDF)
December 10, 2021 KOLD News 13 Pima County Attorney’s Office reviewing incident in which off-duty police officer fatally shot man in mobility scooter The Pima County Attorney’s Ofﬁce has received evidence and is investigating the fatal ofﬁcer-involved shooting that happened in Tucson on Monday, Nov. 29. “Both she (Victoria) and this ﬁrm support a thorough, responsible, and focused review by the Pima County Attorney’s Ofﬁce,” said John H. Bradley of Strang Bradley, LLC. Bradley then struck out against recent comments by Remington’s attorney Mike Storie. “What we do not support are the self-serving comments that former ofﬁcer Ryan Remington continues to make through his lawyer,” Bradley said. “These don’t assist the investigation or accurately inform the public. Fundamentally, they are not fair. Read article Read article (PDF)