CYRUS MEHRI, Associate
Cohen, Milstein, Hausfield & Toll

Cohen, Milstein, Hausfield & Toll is one of the nation’s premier firms in complex and class action litigation on behalf of plaintiffs. Cohen, Milstein represents native Alaskans and was appointed co-lead counsel in the Exxon Valdez civil litigation. The firm has been involved in many of the leading securities fraud cases of the past twenty-five years, including those involving Charles Keating, Michael Milken, and Ivan Boesky. The firm has also been a leader in civil prosecution of large antitrust cases.

In the civil rights area, the firm has developed several novel cases, including the first case recognizing claims of sexual harassment. Currently, the firm is litigating a nation-wide race discrimination class action on behalf of African-Americans against Texaco, Inc.

Cyrus Mehri graduated from Hartwick College (B.A. 1983) and Cornell Law School (J.D. 1988), where he served as Article Editor of the Cornell International Law Journal. Before law school, Mr. Mehri worked for two years as a consumer advocate for Public Citizen’s Congress Watch. Prior to working at Cohen, Milstein, Mr. Mehri clerked for the Honorable John T. Nixon, United States District Judge for the Middle District of Tennessee (Nashville). Mr. Mehri is a member of the bar of Connecticut, the District of Columbia, and the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

With Cohen, Milstein, Mr. Mehri has worked on class actions on behalf of defrauded shareholders, small businesses adversely affected by antitrust price fixing, victims of race discrimination, taxpayers, consumers, pension holders, and neighborhoods subjected to environmental contamination. He has also represented whistle blowers in false claims act cases. Examples of some of the cases he has worked on include: Roberts v. Texaco (S.D.N.Y.) (pending race discrimination class action); Florin v. Nationbank of Georgia. (W.D. Wisc.) (restored nearly $16 million to Simmons Mattress Company Employee Stock Ownership Plan); Roosevelt v. E. I. Dupont de Nemours and Co. 958 F.2d 416 (D.C. Cir. 1992) (J. Ginsberg) (recognized federal cause of action for shareholders in proxy fight over environmental issue); Schaeffer v. City of Los Angeles (Cal. Sup. Ct. L.A. Cnty.) (resulted in termination of tax which violated U.S. Commerce clause); Erie Forge and Steel, Inc. v. Cyprus Minerals Company et al. (W. D. Pa., Civ. No. 94-0404) (pending antitrust case affecting the steel industry); and In re Bolar Pharmaceutical Co. (E.D.N.Y. 1992) (securities fraud class action resulted in settlement of over $25 million).

Since the fall of 1994, Mr. Mehri has served as an advisor for Michael Watson, a Mount Saint Mary’s student athlete who was subjected to a racially-motivated hate crime in Thurmont, Maryland. Although the defendants were acquitted at a trial in state court, the case is currently under consideration by the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, Criminal Section. Mr. Watson is currently a finalist for the prestigious National Student Athlete Day Giant Steps Award in the category of Courageous Male Student Athlete.

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