1. KTLA Exclusive: Attorney for Thomas Family Speaks About Beating Case - August 11, 2011
The attorney for the family of Kelly Thomas, a homeless man who died after a confrontation with Fullerton police, is speaking first to KTLA 5.
2. CNN Coverage - August 16, 2011 Kelly Thomas Lawyer Seeks Federal Case
A family attorney is expected to file a federal complaint for Kelly Thomas' alleged beating. He spoke with Randi Kaye.
Los Angeles attorney said he is planning to file a police brutality lawsuit in federal court this week against Fullerton officers in a new unrelated case. But one of the officers in that case was also involved in the Thomas arrest, said the attorney, Garo Mardirossian.
Garo and Kathy Mardirossian meet the President of the United States. Click on image to enlarge.
Garo Mardirossian Installed as President of CAALA - January 23, 2010
On January 23, 2010, the Consumer Attorneys of Los Angeles (CAALA) gathered at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel for its annual Installation Dinner Dance. The event was attended not only by the members of CAALA, which is the largest local bar association in the United States, but also by many judges who serve on the California Supreme Court, Appellate Courts and Superior Court, along with many members of the California legislature. Read more
Mardirossian Honored with First Ferrahian Alum Award
Neither trial lawyer Garo Mardirossian nor US District Judge Dickran Tevrizian had a hint they would be making a bit of history last Friday, May 2nd until they arrived for Ferrahian Armenian High School's alumni banquet. Read more
Land Rover Rollover Case
- Court Upholds $25 Million Award to Simi Man Paralyzed in Car Collision - February 25, 2011
Earlier in life, Simi Valley resident Sukhsagar Pannu was a star player for Hong Kong's national field hockey team. Today, the Indian-born Pannu, 54, is a partial quadriplegic because of a 2003 traffic collision on Highway 118. In that collision, his 1998 Land Rover Discovery sport utility vehicle rolled over several times, leaving him paralyzed. Read more
Listen to radio interview involving Garo Mardirossian
- C.A. Upholds $20 Million Judgment in Vehicle Rollover - January 2011
The Court of Appeal for this district yesterday upheld a $20 million products liability judgment against Land Rover North America Inc. in favor of a Simi Valleyman rendered quadriplegic during a 2003 roll-over accident.
Div. Seven said Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert H. O'Brien's finding of strict liability under the "risk-benefit" test was "amply supported" by evidence the Land Rover Discovery (Series 1) sport utility vehicle's design presented an excessive preventable danger to Sukhsagar Pannu. Read more - $21 Million Bench Verdict in Land Rover Case - July 2009
On December 14, 2003, at 10:23 a.m., Mr. Sukhsagar Pannu, then age 47, was a seat belted driver of his 1998 Land Rover Discovery I in the No. 2 westbound lane on the 118 Freeway. The driver side of Mr. Pannu's Land Rover was struck by an Acura driven by 16-year-old Bret Lusis, who encroached from the No. 1 westbound lane. Read more - Land Rover Design Blamed - May 28, 2009
The Discovery SUV's maker is ordered to pay $21.1 million in an L.A.-area injury case. Read more - Garo Mardirossian Winning Attorney in Land Rover Case - May 27, 2009
Gary Mardirossian is the winning attorney in the Land Rover $21,154,000 settlement. Read more
Mardirossian Named President Elect, Consumer Trial Lawyers of America - February 5, 2009
California-Decorated attorney Garo Mardirossian was selected as President Elect of the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (CAALA) at the groups' 60th Annual Installation and awards dinner. Read more
Technical Services Bulletins, The Silent Recall - April 2008
Automobile manufacturers strive to keep virtually every consumer who buys a vehicle oblivious of something called a Technical Service Bulletin (TSB). Read more
American Bar Presents Panel of Outstanding Legal Scholars - July 5, 2006
The elegant, five-star Bellagio Hotel and Casino will be the venue, as the Armenian Bar Association (Armenbar) will present an outstanding group of Armenian legal experts on July 29, 2006, for a mandatory continuing legal education (MCLE) seminar. Read more
Family of Bus Driver Wins $13.7M Verdict - August 2004
The family of a bus driver who died after being ejected through the windshield in her seat during a crash won a $13.7 million verdict against the company that maintained the bus. Read more
Secret General Motors Documents Requested - January 16, 2004
Plaintiffs' attorney Garo Mardirossian is not just trying to win a case. He wants to reform the auto industry. To do that, Mardirossian contends he needs to release reams of confidential documents he obtained litigating a case against General Motors Corp. on behalf of the family of a man who died following a van rollover and other passengers who were injured. Read more
Landlord Burn Case
- Burn Victim Wins $6-Million Award - November 6, 2003
Sending a strong message to landlords, a Los Angeles jury ordered the owners of a Hollywood apartment building to pay nearly $6 million Wednesday to a 9-year-old boy who was severely burned trying to warm his hands on the open flame of a gas stove because the apartment's heater did not work. Read more - Landlord Must Pay $2.5 Million to Burned Boy - October 28, 3002
A Los Angeles landlord must pay $2.46 million to a 9-year-old boy who severely burned himself on a stovetop burner that his mother turned on because the landlord failed to maintain the apartment heater, a jury said Monday. Read more - Landlord Ordered to Pay Boy $6 Million
Sending a strong message to landlords, a Los Angeles jury ordered the owners of a Hollywood apartment building to pay nearly $6 million Wednesday to a 9-year-old boy who was severely burned trying to warm his hands on the open flame of a gas stove because the apartment's heater did not work. Read more
Improper Rims Case
- Liberty Mutual Settles Quadriplegic's Lawsuit - December 24, 2003
A bitter battle over collecting a $12.8 million insurance judgment awarded to a 28-year-old quadriplegic and his friend ended quietly Tuesday in a Los Angeles courtroom. Read more - Judge Awards Victim of Crash $12 Million
In one of the largest judgments of its kind, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Monday ordered a Whittier auto shop to pay $12.4 million in interest and litigation costs to a 28-year-old man paralyzed in a traffic accident 10 years ago. Read more
Toyota Seat Belt Blamed for Paralysis - October 23, 2002
Five inches made the difference between 36-year-old Jian Zhong Yang walking away from a car accident and being left a quadriplegic, his attorney, Garo Mardirossian, claims. Read more
Ford Explorer Rollover Case - March 8, 2002
In a recent personal injury case that settled for $15 million, the jury found that the Ford Explorer is 'defective in design.' Read more
City Lawyers Land in Barstow Time Warp to Try Cases - December 21, 2001
Stopping off in Barstow is like stepping into a bygone era, with its mom-and-pop cafes, crumbling motels with neon signs boasting "air conditioning rooms" and miles of cracked pavement along what once was a heavily traveled stretch of Route 66. Read more
Jury Finds for Blast Victims - June 26, 2001
Five and a half years ago, 15-year-old Matthew McDonough was asleep in his Kern Way condominium in Walnut when an electric water heater in an adjoining unit blew up. Read more
Group Names Mardirossian No. 1 - 2000
Garo Mardirossian is Los Angeles' Trial Lawyer of the Year 2000. Read more
Accident Victim Gets $21 Million - August 28, 2000
Oganes Saakyan got a big birthday present this year from a Norwalk jury: $21 million. But it was long overdue. Read more
Golfer Awarded 3.6 Million for Injury on Course - November 14, 1997
Attorney Garo Mardirossian, left, with scale model depicting the mishap, used the timeline above to obtain a $3,625,000 verdict on behalf of his client. Read more
Car-Pedestrian Crash Case Settles for $4.6M - May 9, 1997
Plaintiff's attorneys Garo Mardirossian and Conrado Joe Sayas, Jr. used a computer-animated sequence in a personal injury and wrongful death case arising out of an automobile accident. Read more
Furnace Rockets Into Night, Shreds Condo - December 30, 1995
A pre-dawn explosion caused by a faulty water heater ripped through a three-unit condominium complex Friday, leaving two residents injured and nine people homeless. Read more
Police Brutality Case
- Lawyer Wins Biggest Police Abuse Verdict Ever
Six years ago, attorney Garo Mardirossian was planning to celebrate Melinda Dole Paapao's wedding with her family. Instead, he ended up representing members of the Dole family in a lawsuit against the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, stemming from charges that deputies brutalized party-goers at a wedding shower - about two weeks before Mardirossian planned to attend the wedding. Read more - The Buck Passes to the Sheriff in Deputies' Cover-Up - November 9, 1995
The $16-million jury award in the Samoan party case is justice for victims of beatings and false arrest. Read more - Police Misconduct Jury Gives Partygoers $15.9 Million - September 1, 1995
In February of 1989, Plaintiff members of a Samoan/American family and friends held a bridal shower for Plaintiff Melinda Dole Paapao, the Daughter of Plaintiff Arthur Dole. Read more - Despite Vindication, Pain Lingers - August 9, 1995
Record damages won in suit against Sheriff's Department will not erase memories of arrests and beatings, Dole family members say. Read more -
Party-Goers Win $15.9 Million in Suit Over Melee - August 8, 1995
A civil court jury Monday ordered financially beleaguered Los Angeles County to pay a record $15.9 million in damages to 36 people who jurors ruled were brutalized or falsely arrested by sheriff's deputies storming a 1989 bridal shower at the Cerritos home of a Samoan American family. Read more
Palm Springs Family Awarded Victims $9M in Drunk Driving Accident
A Palm springs family was awarded $9M for the death and injuries suffered at the hands of a drunk driver. Read more
