BHB IMPACT

BHB’s Impact team is composed of trial attorneys who bring civil cases designed to achieve broad and lasting results for underrepresented groups and causes. BHB Impact has worked alongside and represented major civil rights, public-interest, and environmental organizations, including the ACLU, Human Rights Watch, AARP, the Sierra Club, and others. Our current and past projects include protection of press freedoms, book banning/censorship, the environment, prisoner rights, immigrant rights, pregnancy rights, racial justice, political dissidents, and elderly rights. Since our inception, we have accumulated tens of thousands of hours of attorney work on impact cases, represented over 30 clients, secured numerous injunctions, and won millions of dollars in awards and/or settlements for our clients. Our Impact group was honored in 2025 with the ALM/The Recorder California Legal Award for our impact litigation work, and in 2024 with the Father Cuchulain Moriarty Award for immigration justice by the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area.

OUR IMPACT

**Protecting First Amendment Rights of Journalists and Protesters**
*L.A. Press Club v. Noem*

**Seeking Accountability for Fatal Shooting by Police During a Mental Illness**
*Daher v. County of Sacramento*

**Obtaining State Records re: Discriminatory Practices** **to Enforce the Racial Justice Act**
*ACLU NorCal v. Andrus, County of Siskiyou*
*ACLU NorCal v. Rosell, County of Santa Cruz*
ACLU NorCal v. Eyster, County of Mendocino

**Defending Free Press from Federal and Local Police During Portland Protest**s
*Index Newspapers, LLC v. City of Portland, DHS, USMS*

**Holding Governments to Account for Assassination Attempts Against Human Rights Leade**r
*Pannun v. The Government of India*

**Preventing Forced Arbitration of Elder Abuse Claims at CA Supreme Court**
*Harrod v. Country Oaks Partners, LLC*

**Ending MA Prisons from Using Faulty Drug Tests**
*Green v. Sirchie et al.* (Suffolk County)
*Green v. Sirchie et al.* (D. MA.)

**Challenging Denial of Pregnancy Rights for Students**
State of Louisiana, et al. v. U.S. Department of Education
State of Tennessee, et al., v. Miguel Cardona, et al.
State of Kansas, et al. v. U.S. Department of Education

**Stopping Illegal Torture and Abuse at Private Prisons**
*Murillo v. Management and Training Corporation*

**Intervening for Title IX Protections For Pregnant and Postpartum Students**
*Tennessee v. McMahon*

**Ending Discrimination Against Students with Disabilities**
J.N. v. Oregon Department of Education

**Fighting Censorship in Texas Libraries**
*Little, et al. v. Llano County*

**Preventing Illegal Transfer of Immigrants to ICE**
*Maldonado v. Huntington Park Police Department*

**Uncovering of Cambodian Gov. Misconduct**
*In re Ex Parte Application of Sam Rainsy and Filing Victims Before the ICC*

**Halting Elderly Abuse: Nursing Home Resident Dumping and Illegal Drugging**
*Single, et al. v. Cathedral Pioneer Church Homes II*

**Advocating** **Against Flow of Guns by U.S. Big-Gun Manufacturers to and from Mexico**
*Estados Unidos Mexicanos v. Smith & Wesson Brands Inc.*

IMPACT LITIGATORS

Matthew Borden, Partner & Co-Founder
Kory DeClark, Partner
Marissa R. Benavides, Partner
Anuj Dixit, Attorney
Hadley Rood, Larsen Justice Fellow (UC Berkeley Law)

JOIN THE TEAM
BraunHagey and Borden’s focus on social, economic, and environmental justice led to the creation of a practice group like no other. In addition to the impact-focused attorneys, BHB attorneys from other practice areas often work on these cases as well. At BHB, the impact practice is not an afterthought; it is a critical part of the firm, as important as everything else we do.

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