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Jury Verdict$126M Civil Rights$2M Jail Death
$126,000,000

The largest civil rights verdict in Oklahoma history.

Gaines v. City of Moore — April 2026. Two jury verdicts in a single month.

Jason Hicks, trial attorney
Jason Hicks, Lead Trial Attorney
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$126M Civil-Rights Jury Verdict

$126,000,000

Gaines v. City of Moore — $126 Million Jury Verdict

A landmark Oklahoma civil-rights jury verdict. A federal jury returned a $126 million verdict in this § 1983 action in April 2026.

Why it matters: This verdict is a major Oklahoma civil-rights result. It holds a municipality accountable when an officer causes harm while acting in furtherance of department operations — even when off-duty.

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$126M Civil-Rights Jury VerdictGaines v. City of Moore, 2026
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New civil-rights trial journal

What a $2 million Oklahoma County jail-death verdict shows about proof.

The Davis verdict was built from records, medical proof, witness testimony, jail-policy work, and trial command. Families with serious custody-death or ignored-medical-care questions can use the article to see what must be preserved and tested early.

  • Cell-check logs, medical records, policy evidence, and deposition testimony matter.
  • Section 1983 jail-death cases require notice, causation, and deliberate-indifference proof.
  • Past results do not guarantee future outcomes; every case turns on its own evidence.
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Attorney review

When civil-rights violations, fatal injury, proof, urgency, and damages call for attorney review.

A high-value case is not just a big number. It often involves life-changing harm, disputed responsibility, meaningful damages, and records that need careful review. If the harm is life-changing and the proof will be contested, the next step is trial-level review built around liability, damages, and preservation.

Major harm

Major injury or death

Death, permanent injury, surgery, disability, brain injury, paralysis, or long-term medical loss.

Accountable party

Company, insurer, business, or agency

A trucking company, commercial fleet, insurer, property owner, jail, police agency, government entity, or business defendant.

Meaningful damages

Losses that change the future

Medical cost, lost earning capacity, family loss, future care, civil-rights harm, or denied insurance benefits.

Proof pressure

Facts the defense will fight

A dispute over what happened, what records show, who knew what, or why a company or agency should be accountable.

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April 2026

Two Jury Verdicts. One Firm.

In a single month, we secured a landmark civil-rights verdict and held a county jail accountable for an in-custody death. Both at trial. Both before a jury.

Jury Verdict2026
$126,000,000

Landmark civil-rights jury verdict

Gaines v. City of Moore — $126 Million Jury Verdict

A landmark Oklahoma civil-rights jury verdict. A federal jury returned a $126 million verdict in this § 1983 action in April 2026.

Key Evidence

Crash reconstruction established Lloyd was traveling at 94–95 mph. Event data recorder evidence, traffic signal timing analysis, and scene geometry proved Lloyd ran the red light. Lloyd's prior criminal conviction — a guilty plea to first-degree manslaughter resulting in an 18-year sentence — established the underlying facts of negligence beyond dispute.

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Jury Verdict2026
$2,000,000

Simms v. Oklahoma County Criminal Justice Authority — $2 Million Jury Verdict

A federal jury returned a $2 million verdict against the Oklahoma County Jail Trust in this § 1983 in-custody death action. The jury found institutional deliberate indifference to serious medical needs after jail staff missed five of six mandatory cell checks before the detainee was found unresponsive.

Key Evidence

Jail check logs proved that staff missed five out of six mandatory 30-minute cell checks in the critical hours before Davis was found. Medical records and autopsy findings established that Davis exhibited obvious signs of distress that went ignored. Institutional records documented the systemic failures in medical monitoring at the facility.

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Civil Rights First. High-Value Injury When The Proof Demands It.

Government accountability is the center of the firm. Truck wrecks, fatal crashes, catastrophic injuries, and insurer misconduct get the same evidence-first litigation work.

Government accountability

Civil Rights

Police force, jail neglect, custody deaths, and constitutional claims that require federal civil-rights litigation experience.

Our civil-rights work includes a $126 million federal jury verdict and jail-death verdicts for Oklahoma families.

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Jail records & medical proof

In-Custody Death

Deaths in custody, denied medical care, missed checks, and failure-to-protect claims against detention facilities.

We examine jail video, logs, medical records, policies, and private medical-provider conduct early.

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ECM & ELD evidence

Truck Accidents

Semi-trucks, fleet vehicles, black-box data, and carrier records that can disappear before many teams are ready to act.

We move quickly to preserve ECM data, ELD records, dash video, maintenance files, and carrier safety records.

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Families, not files

Wrongful Death

When a preventable death harms a family, we build the proof to hold every responsible party accountable.

We handle probate coordination, independent autopsy review, and full future-loss valuation simultaneously.

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Insurer conduct litigation

Bad Faith Insurance

Denied, delayed, or underpaid major claims that require litigation preparation, not a polite letter to an adjuster.

We investigate the claim file, coverage position, reserves, and insurer conduct before value is reduced.

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Body-cam & use-of-force

Police Misconduct

Police shootings, beatings, and unlawful force prosecuted under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. We reconstruct scenes with laser scanning and trajectory analysis.

We've used independent forensic reconstruction to contradict officer accounts in multiple shooting cases.

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Constitutional death claims

Civil Rights Wrongful Death

Jail deaths, denied medical care, and failure-to-protect claims against detention facilities — the cases most firms won't take.

We uncovered a written jail policy requiring supervisor approval before calling 911 — and proved it killed our client.

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High-impact crashes

Catastrophic Collision

Car and motorcycle crashes involving disputed liability, catastrophic injury, or fatal outcomes requiring expert reconstruction.

We model lifetime medical burden and earning-capacity loss before any release is signed.

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Why This Firm For This Case

Three things that separate evidence-driven litigation from ordinary claim handling.

1. We preserve evidence before it changes or disappears.

Trucking ECM, telematics, jail surveillance, and body-cam footage can change or disappear if preservation is delayed. We send preservation letters and file preservation motions before the record gets harder to reconstruct.

2. We prepare every case for trial, even when we expect to settle.

Insurance companies can tell when a firm is bluffing. They settle for full value when the expert reports are commissioned, the depositions are scheduled, and the trial date is on the calendar.

3. We take the cases other firms turn away.

Section 1983 jail-death litigation, bad-faith coverage disputes, qualified-immunity fights, and catastrophic injury claims all require a firm willing to build the record before the other side defines it.

Documented Proof

Cases built on evidence, not promises.

Civil Rights
$4,000,000

Jail Medical Neglect - Diabetes

Evidence: We obtained the jail's written internal policy requiring supervisor sign-off before contacting emergency services. We also preserved booking intake records proving the jail knew he was insulin-dependent.

Construction Injury
$6,000,000

Construction Site Electrocution

Evidence: We locked down the job site within 48 hours and documented the absence of required high-voltage warning signs, the missing spotter, and OSHA violation history for the general contractor.

Wrongful Death
$5,000,000

Daycare Infant Death & Cover-Up

Evidence: We obtained cell-phone records, text messages, and neighbor statements that contradicted the provider's timeline. We also challenged the insurance carrier's coverage denial through two rounds of briefing.

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If the facts point to major harm or government misconduct, start with a confidential review.

Use this form for civil-rights violations, deaths in custody, fatal injury, permanent impairment, trucking evidence, police force, deliberate indifference, or an insurer delaying a major claim.

What Should Be Reviewed First?

Contact us if any of the following apply:

  • Someone was killed or permanently disabled.
  • A commercial vehicle, police officer, jail, or insurer is involved.
  • Video, records, or physical evidence may become harder to find.
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