Sam Sloan - Court Cases

Court Cases

Sloan has filed petitions in San Francisco Superior Court and in Marin County Probate Court located in the Marin County Civic Center. The petitions relate to the estate of Mike Goodall and charge Guide Dogs for the Blind with running a “scam operation” benefiting few if any blind people but rather providing “service dogs” to perfectly healthy people with full vision who want to take their pets into restaurants, buses and BART and with using tactics to coerce wealthy elderly people to leave their houses to Guide Dogs for the Blind rather than to their children. They are alleging that through these schemes Guide Dogs for the Blind has become one of the richest charities in the USA and the biggest property owner in Marin County, owning more than one hundred houses and a campus with more than 40 buildings and 39 vans, all tax free under 501(c)(3). According to the petitions, Guide Dogs for the Blind has accumulated more than $300 million in net assets and the directors pay themselves more than $1 million annually in salaries.

Among his cases that petitioned or reached the federal level are:

• Sloan v. Nixon, 60 FRD 228 (1973)
• Sloan v. Virginia, No. 95-8909
• SEC v. Sloan, 436 US 103