Omar Qureshi and Max Schoening, Stanford Law classmates and attorneys in a plaintiff-side law firm Qureshi Law (along with fellow 2018 classmate Will Horowitz), secured what is believed to be the largest civil rights jury verdict in Louisiana history and the largest-ever verdict against a private correctional company in the United States. The $42.75 million award was handed down in October 2025 in a federal civil rights case against LaSalle Management Company, which operates detention centers across the South. The New York Times covered the verdict.

The case stemmed from the 2015 death of Erie Moore Sr., a 57-year-old retired millworker who was fatally injured after being slammed headfirst to the floor by guards at Richwood Correctional Center, then owned and operated by LaSalle. After a two-week trial, the jury found that LaSalle and its employees acted with “actual malice or reckless indifference to the rights or safety of others.”

Qureshi, who founded Qureshi Law in 2020, said in a statement that the verdict “affirmed the value of Erie Moore Sr.’s life and sent an unequivocal message to LaSalle: If you make money off of jailing people, you cannot disregard their rights and safety.”