Press & Publications 

PUBLICATIONS

by Geri Lynn Green

• Timing is Everything in Resolving Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Cases, by Geri Lynn Green and Premkiran Reddy
  • Daily Journal (April 23, 2024)
• A Strike Against Qualified Immunity, by Geri Lynn Green and Sanford J. Rosen
  • The Recorder (October 1, 2010)
• The Quixotic Dilemma, by Geri Lynn Green
  • California’s Immutable Culture of Incarceration, Pace Law Review (2010)
• Demanding Our Rights, Geri Lynn Green (co-author)
  • A Manual on Drafting United Nations Shadow Reports (2007)

PRESS

Shikman v. Lake County

• Lake County settles to pay $2M to son of jail suicide inmate, Lake County Record-Bee, June 13, 2018.
• Lake County reaches $2 million settlement in federal lawsuit over 2015 jail suicide, Lake County News, June 15, 2018.
• Lake County settles jail suicide case for $2 million, The Press Democrat, June 18, 2018.

Lemire v. CDCR

• Ninth Circuit Revives Mom’s Suit In Son’s 2006 Prison Death, The Sacramento Bee, August 10, 2013.
• California to pay $1 million to family of inmate who committed suicide, The Sacramento Bee, October 23, 2015

United States v. Cerna

• Last MS-13 member convicted in federal gang case, The Daily Journal, February 17, 2012

Downes v. City and County of San Francisco

• Inmate Issiah Downes dies in S.F. jail, The San Francisco Chronicle, September 9, 2009
• Inmate died at hands of deputies, coroner rules, The San Francisco Chronicle, September 24, 2010
• Restrained San Francisco Jail Inmate Death Ruled Homicide, CBS SF Bay Area, September 24, 2010 
• Coroner says SF inmate died at hands of jailers, Recordnet.com, September 24, 2010
• Medical examiner rules 2009 inmate death homicide, family plans to sue, The San Francisco Examiner, September 24, 2010
• Dead inmate’s family sues S.F. for $50 million, The San Francisco Chronicle, October 5, 2010
• Homicide and Alleged Cover-Up at San Francisco County Jail — Issiah Downes’ Mother Files $50 Million Lawsuit, PRWeb.com, October 7, 2010 
• Mother of Issiah Downes, Man Killed in County Jail, Gets $350,000 from City, SFWeekly, May 3, 2011
• $350,000 settlement for family of San Francisco inmate who died during restraint, The San Francisco Examiner, May 4, 2011
• Choked Out, San Francisco Bay Guardian, December 11, 2012

Daniels v. City of Folsom

• Folsom Police Face Civil Rights Lawsuit Charging Excessive Use of Force in Use of Taser, Press Release, March 17, 2010 

Countee v. County of Sacramento

• Prisoner Receives $260,000 Settlement from Sacramento County In Federal Lawsuit re Excessive Use of Force in County Jail, The Sacramento Bee, April 20, 2009
• Sacramento County Jail Settles Excessive Force Suit For $260,000, Prison Legal News, October 15, 2009

Hewitt v. County of Sacramento

• Lawsuit blames Sacramento County in inmate’s death, The Sacramento Bee, Aug. 21, 2009

Krenn v. Santa Clara County

• The Naked Guy, The New York Times Magazine, December 31, 2006
• SAN JOSE / Mother sues in death of son in county jail, KTVU, SFGATE, May 1, 2007
• Santa Clara County to pay $1 million in lawsuit over Naked Guy’s suicide, The Mercury News, May 17, 2009
• Lawsuit settled in ‘Naked Guy’ jail suicide, KTVU, SFGATE, May 19, 2009
• A naked million, The San Francisco Chronicle, May 24, 2009

Shaw v. San Joaquin County

• Jury: Jail psychiatrist must pay $100,000, Recordnet.com, February 28, 2006
• Jury Awards $858,200 in California Jail Suicide, Prison Legal News, May 15, 2006

Lucas, et. al. v. White, et. al.

• 3 women sue, allege sex slavery in prison, The San Francisco Examiner, September 29, 1996
• Prisons Bureau Settles With Female Inmates, The San Francisco Chronicle, March 3, 1998
• Sex-slave suit forces reforms at prisons, The San Francisco Examiner, March 3, 1998