En el 2007, el abogado Blake Horwitz representó a la entonces prometedora estrella de UFC Terry Martin en una demanda presentada en contra de la Ciudad de Chicago y dos oficiales de la policía que arrestaron falsamente al Sr. Martin mientras iba de camino a una estación de la policía para ...
In 2010, attorney Blake Horwitz effectively put an end to racial profiling within the McHenry County Sheriff’s Department, which was specifically targeting Latinos with traffic tickets, through representing former-McHenry County Sheriff Deputy Zane Seipler in multiple wrongful termination ...
In 2016, The Blake Horwitz Law Firm filed a federal civil rights lawsuit on behalf of Randall Brown, whose beating at the hands of a Cook County Jail guard in 2013 went viral after being captured on surveillance footage. As reported by the Chicago Sun-Times, Mr. Brown was waiting to receive his ...
In 2005, attorney Blake Horwitz filed a class action lawsuit in federal court against the Village of Stone Park for running a longstanding undercover sting operation designed to generate revenue for the municipality through false citations for soliciting prostitution. As originally reported by ...
In 2007, attorney Blake Horwitz represented then-rising UFC star Terry Martin in a lawsuit filed against the City of Chicago and two police officers who falsely arrested Mr. Martin as he was on his way to a police station to report those same officers’ misconduct the day before. As originally ...
In 2007, attorney Blake Horwitz filed a class action lawsuit in federal court against the City of Chicago, elected officials, and several police officers over the City improperly implementing a law that prohibited people from talking on their cell phones while driving. As originally reported on ...
In 2009, attorney Blake Horwitz filed a federal lawsuit against the City of Chicago on behalf of the family of Marcellus Perry, an unarmed black man who was shot and killed by a Chicago police officer while he was trying to flee. As originally reported by the Chicago Tribune, the lawsuit ...
In February 2020, The Blake Horwitz Law Firm filed a lawsuit against Dolton School District 149 after one of its private security guards choked and slammed a kindergarten student at Caroline Sibley Elementary School in Calumet City. According to the Chicago Tribune, this is the second lawsuit ...
In 2002, attorney Blake Horwitz earned a $1.8 million settlement from the City of Chicago for the family of Juan Vega, a man who died while being held in a police van. As originally reported by the Chicago Tribune, Chicago police officers took Mr. Vega into custody in 2000 for being ...
The Blake Horwitz Law Firm settled a federal lawsuit against the state of Indiana, the city of Anderson, and others for $1.4 million on behalf of Walter Goudy, who spent nearly two decades behind bars for a murder that he never committed. As originally reported on by the Indianapolis Star, now ...
