"Brian Gearinger showed up for coffee on a recent morning rocking a scarlet pullover from Denison University in Ohio, where he majored in political science and started four years at offensive tackle for the Big Red football team. If you have 20 minutes to spare, ask him about the throwback, single-wing offense run by then-Denison head coach Keith Piper, who guided the team to an undefeated regular season in 1985, Gearinger's senior year."
"In 2019 he took on a notable civil rights case that led to Gearinger, along with the two lawyers who worked with him as co-counsel, being named California's 2025 Consumer Attorneys of the Year. That case, Loggervale v. Alameda County, involved a Black mother and her two daughters, who were 19 and 17 at the time. After driving all night from Las Vegas to get the older daughter to her statistics exam at Berkeley Community College, they stopped at a Starbucks in Castro Valley."
"While parked, they were approached by deputies from the Alameda County Sheriff's Office, who were searching for suspects in a series of recent car break-ins. The suspects had been described as Black males, which didn't stop one of the deputies from asking the mother, Aasylei Loggervale, for her identification. After asking the deputy what she had done that would require her to produce her ID, she chose not to hand it over, which was her right."
Brian Gearinger is a 61-year-old attorney who played offensive tackle at Denison University and attended University of Michigan Law School. He practiced corporate law for nine years, served six years as a San Francisco deputy city attorney, then opened a solo practice in Santa Rosa in 2008. In 2019 he took on Loggervale v. Alameda County, a civil-rights case involving a Black mother and her two daughters who were stopped by Alameda County deputies while parked at a Castro Valley Starbucks. The mother declined to hand over identification after being asked, and Gearinger and co-counsel were named California's 2025 Consumer Attorneys of the Year.
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