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Video Shows Mammoth Lakes Police Killing Unarmed Man

Children of Jesus Uribe will file a lawsuit seeking accountability.

(Los Angeles, California) - Video released today by the Mammoth Lakes Police Department (MLPD) shows that its officers used excessive and unlawful force when they shot and killed Jesus Uribe Corona, an unarmed 39-year-old Mammoth Lakes resident, lawyers for his family said.

 

“The video demonstrates that the police’s use of deadly force was completely unnecessary. He was unarmed, had not thrown a rock at officers, and was at a safe distance from them,” said Will Horowitz, an attorney from Qureshi Law who represents Mr. Uribe’s children.

 

On March 4, 2025, MLPD officers encountered Mr. Uribe outside of the town library, where he appeared to be having a mental health crisis and holding two rocks. Officers pointed their guns at him instead of taking any steps to de-escalate the situation, leading him to retreat. During his retreat, he encountered two other officers who shot him multiple times and killed him. He never threw a rock at the police and was unarmed.

 

“Jesus’s death has been absolutely devastating for me and our kids,” said Ashely Ramirez, the mother of Esteban and Maurizio, Mr. Uribe’s 11 and 8-year-old children. “He was a loving man, father, and member of our community and should still be alive today,” she said.

Mr. Uribe and his two sons.

Wendy Galvan, Mr. Uribe’s niece, added, “The senseless killing of my uncle has brought fear and pain to my family and community.”

 

Mr. Uribe and his extended family have lived in Mammoth Lakes, California, a leading skiing and outdoor recreation destination in the United States, for more than 25 years. He worked in construction, landscaping, and roofing and is survived by his two children, mother, and five brothers and sisters.

 

“Today we will begin the process of filing a civil rights lawsuit against MLPD and the involved officers to seek justice for Mr. Uribe, his children, and family,” said Max Schoening, an attorney from Qureshi Law who also represents his children.

 

MLPD has stated that the officers who shot Mr. Uribe were not wearing body cameras. The California Department of Justice is investigating whether to bring criminal charges against the officers that shot Mr. Uribe because he was unarmed.

 

For more information, contact: Will Horowitz, Will@qureshi.law or Max Schoening, Max@qureshi.law.

Memorial where Mr. Uribe was killed in Mammoth Lakes, California

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Qureshi Law Joins Knight First Amendment Institute in Filing a Lawsuit Against Meta

Qureshi Law is proud to join the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University in filing a lawsuit today against Meta in the Northern District of California. Filed on behalf of Ethan Zuckerman—a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst—the lawsuit asks the court to recognize that federal law empowers people to use tools to curate and control their social media experiences, including their Facebook news feed. Mr. Zuckerman would like to release a tool he’s calling Unfollow Everything 2.0—which would effectively allow Facebook users to turn off their news feeds—but hasn’t yet done so because he’s afraid Meta will sue him. In 2021, Meta (then-Facebook) sent an aggressive cease-and-desist letter to another developer to halt his creation of a very similar tool to the one Mr. Zuckerman seeks to release.

In the words of Mr. Zuckerman, “I’m suing Facebook to make it better. The major social media companies have too much control over what content their users see and don’t see.”

You can read the full complaint here.

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Qureshi Law Has Won an Appeal Protecting Plaintiffs’ Rights Against Arbitration Clauses

Omar Qureshi of Qureshi Law PC and L. David Russell of Russell Law, P.C. recently won an appeal before California’s Court of Appeal for the Second Appellate District.

The Defendant, Interactive Life Forms, LLC argued that e-commerce websites can bind consumers to arbitration in the event of a dispute just because a website’s term of use has terms of service that contain such arbitration provisions.

The Court of Appeal, in a published opinion, instead held that these “browserwrap” provisions on a website do not form enforceable agreements to arbitrate under California law.

You can find the entire opinion below:


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Cable Companies Have Created a Major Risk of Sexual Assault

Charter Communications, Inc. has a history of sending servicepersons into customers’ homes who then sexually and violently assault its customers.

Recently, in Saint Louis, Missouri, a cable repairman sexually assaulted a Charter customer. Charter subcontracted with two firms who hired the repairman. The subcontractors did not do a background check, and Charter did not ensure that they did so. Neither Charter nor the subcontractors sent a supervisor with the repairman, who had just started doing service calls on behalf of the company. Similarly, in Dallas, a Charter cable installer raped a 72-year-old woman in her home.

The risk of sending an untrained, unsupervised, and potentially dangerous person into the houses of vulnerable customers is great. In Las Vegas, Nevada, a cable serviceman working for a contractor and who represented a major cable company was able to assault several customers in their homes before the police finally caught him. In Chicago, another cable repairman raped two people and murdered a customer in her her home.

Unfortunately, these are just a handful of examples of a chronic problem that persists within the industry generally and Charter specifically.

A Charter Communications serviceperson sexually assaulted our client, and we recently filed a lawsuit against Charter Communications, Inc. in Los Angeles Superior Court. You can find a copy of the Complaint filed by Qureshi Law below.

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