2025-06-21 PL-INT-2025-010805 Law Offices of Sherry P. Broder - Category PL.7

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RE : Statement of Qualification and Expression of Interest of Sherry P. Broder, June 21, 2025 representing thousands of people . I have litigated civil cases in other jurisdictions, including California, Philadelphia, New York City, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, San Francisco and other places . I have litigated cases in other countries including the Republic of the Philippines, Switzerland, and Singapore . I have been engaged in appellate litigation at the Hawaii Supreme Court, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, California Supreme Court, and the United States Supreme Court. I have represented clients in many civil rights cases, including the First, Fourteen and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution and pursuant to the international law principles governing human rights . I have handled cases before the EEOC, the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission, and the United Nations Commission on Human Rights . I am co-counsel for the victims of torture in the Marcos human rights litigation. The judgment of almost $2 billion is believed to be the largest personal injury verdict in history. In that case, I represent the 10, 000 victims of torture during the Marcos regime from 1972 to 1986. I was co-counsel with Robert A. Swift of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for the Defendant Estate of Ferdinand E . Marcos . A federal jury found the Defendant Estate of Ferdinand E . Marcos liable to the class and awarded a verdict of 1 . 2 billion dollars in exemplary damages and 776 million dollars in compensatory damages . See Hilao v. Estate of Marcos, 103 F. 3d 767 (9th Cir. 1996) . The National Law Journal reported that in 1994 the exemplary damages verdict was the second highest verdict in the United States . I was featured on the front page in the February 6, 1995 issue of the National Law Journal for my work in this case . In February 2011, there was a first distribution in the Philippines to the victims . One of the collection cases was argued before the United States Supreme Court and I was one of the counsels of record. See Philippines v. Pimentel, 553 U. S . 851 (2008) . Efforts to collect more funds on this judgment are still ongoing in the courts of New York State, Republic of the Philippines and Singapore . I have co-counseled with Jon Van Dyke and successfully defended the City and County of Honolulu against certain T-shirt vendors who claimed violation of their civil rights . I have represented the County Council of Maui in their efforts to 9