PERSISTENT AS HELL Paula Greisen isn’t going to wait around for someone else to enact change Published in 2019 Colorado Super Lawyers magazine By Joel Warner on March 28, 2019 Paula Greisen sits in the gallery of a federal courtroom in downtown Denver, legs crossed and hands splayed out on the wooden bench on either side of her, radiating impatient […]
Super Lawyers named Scott Medlock a “Texas Rising Star” in 2019 for his work representing prisoners and their families.
Greisen Medlock represented a gay couple before the United States Supreme Court when a Colorado baker refused to sell them a wedding cake. Here are links to reporting about the case: ‘This happens all the time’: why a gay couple took their cake case to the supreme court | US news | The Guardian
Greisen Medlock lawyers won an injunction requiring the Texas prison system to move vulnerable inmates from a geriatric prison to air-conditioned locations. After a 9-day hearing, Judge Keith Ellison ordered the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to move elderly and disabled prisoners out of the notorious Pack Unit, where indoor heat indexes regularly exceeded 110 […]
Greisen Medlock lawyers represented the family of David Joseph, a teenager who was shot to death by Austin police as he ran around naked during a mental health crisis. At the time the case settled, it was one of the largest police misconduct settlements in the city’s history. Austin police: Teen kiled by officer identified […]
Time Magazine asked Greisen Medlock lawyers to write an editorial about why prisons in Texas need to be air conditioned while Scott Medlock represented the family of Eugene McCollum, a man who died of heatstroke in custody as he served a sentence for writing a bad check. Air Conditioning is a Human Right – Time […]
Greisen Medlock lawyers represented many families whose loved-ones died of heatstroke in Texas prisons that lacked air conditioning. Larry McCollum was imprisoned for passing a bad check, but died of heatstroke just a week into his short sentence. Texas ended up paying McCollum’s family one of the largest settlements in the history of the Texas […]
Greisen Medlock lawyers represented the family of a severally mentally-ill woman who died of a preventable illness in the Dallas County, Texas, jail. They were asked to speak about the case, and the problems with how pre-trial detainees are denied necessary medical treatment, by the New York Times. Deaths in County Jails Raise Calls for […]
