Curry Pearson & Wooten PLC

08/29/2023

CPW is proud to announce a couple of huge wins recently in criminal cases: Kristen Curry won a new trial for a client on appeal where the Court of Appeals found, in a published opinion, that the court's admission of "other act" evidence was overly prejudicial. Robert Wooten secured a dismissal from the State for his client who was charged with Conspiracy to Commit First Degree Murder and First Degree Murder. Robert challenged the grand jury indictment and showed that the Detective lied when he claimed that the client had confessed. Robert also linked the evidence to support his client's version that she was not involved. As a result, the State dismissed the case "in the interest of justice." Kristen Curry got two DUI cases dismissed, one in Mesa and the other in Tempe, for Right to Counsel violations by the officers. Hard work and perseverance pays off!

05/29/2023

05/08/2022

Happy Mother's Day!

02/02/2022

Curry, Pearson & Wooten, PLC, and lead attorney Michael Pearson are pleased to announce that the lawsuit challenging the Federal Aviation Administration’s Air Traffic Controller hiring changes in 2014 is now a class action. The case, No. 16-cv-2227 (DLF), pending in the Federal District Court in the District of Columbia, will now move forward as a class action for clients Andrew Brigida and Matthew Douglas-Cook and other aspiring air traffic controllers who scored highly on qualification tests but lost out on their dream jobs due to the FAA’s effort to skew the hiring process along racial lines. Plaintiffs Andrew Brigida and Matthew L. Douglas-Cook were elated by the ruling.

“Today was a really great feeling,” said Brigida. “It was a shock finally hearing the Judge grant our motion to move the case along, and a long time coming. Not many cases of this type even get to this point of the lawsuit. I know there is still a lot of work ahead to be done, but I feel that today was a huge hurdle to jump over, and probably one of the bigger ones.”

The case now proceeds to the merits of whether discrimination took place in the FAA’s actions. The class action would cover the non-African American CTI graduates who: (1) by February 10, 2014: (a) graduated from a CTI program at one of the 36 FAA-partnered CTI Institutions between 2009-2013 and (b) passed the AT-SAT; (2) applied to be an ATCS trainee through the 2014 All Sources vacancy announcement but failed the Biographical Questionnaire that was incorporated into the 2014 ATCS hiring process and was therefore not hired; and (3) have never been offered employment as an FAA ATCS.

Curry, Pearson & Wooten, PLC attorney Michael Pearson began litigating the matter through the administrative process in 2014 and will be litigating the case to resolution along with co-counsel Mountain States Legal Foundation.

12/15/2021

Happy Holidays from the CPW family to yours.

11/24/2021

Wishing everyone a Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃

05/12/2021

CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT MOVING FORWARD! A Federal District Judge in Washington D.C. just denied the government's motion to dismiss an employment discrimination class action lawsuit against the FAA being handled by CPW's Michael Pearson. Great work Mike! Read the opinion here:

FAA CTI Class Action Suit update: Court denies FAA's Motion to Dismiss. Holds that CTI students are "applicants"... The lawsuit, originally titled Brigida...

01/19/2021

Robert Wooten explaining mitigation in a criminal case.

Curry, Pearson & Wooten lawyer Robert Wooten discusses mitigation of a criminal case. Video number 9 of the Arizona Criminal Law Series.

01/01/2021

Happy New Year!!

12/24/2020

Best Wishes for a Joyous and Healthy Christmas from all of us at CPW!